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Contemporary Trauma Narratives

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317684710
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Trauma Narratives written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in which the texts fight the unrepresentability of trauma by performing rather than representing it. The ethicality or unethicality involved in this endeavor is assessed from the combined perspectives of the non-foundational, non-cognitive, discursive ethics of alterity inspired by Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethics of vulnerability. This approach makes Contemporary Trauma Narratives an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory.

Contemporary American Trauma Narratives

Author : Alan Gibbs
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748694080
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Trauma Narratives written by Alan Gibbs and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as OCymetafictionOCO, as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the Iraq War, and reactions to the Bush administration.

Reading Trauma Narratives

Author : Laurie Vickroy
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937396
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Reading Trauma Narratives written by Laurie Vickroy and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing on novels by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Chuck Palahniuk, she shows how these writers try to enlarge our understanding of the relationship between individual traumas and the social forces of injustice, oppression, and objectification. Further, she argues, their work provides striking examples of how the devastating effects of trauma—whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial—on individual personality can be depicted in narrative. Vickroy offers a unique blend of interpretive frameworks. She draws on theories of trauma and narrative to analyze the ways in which her selected texts engage readers both cognitively and ethically—immersing them in, and yet providing perspective on, the flawed thinking and behavior of the traumatized and revealing how the psychology of fear can be a driving force for individuals as well as for society. Through this engagement, these writers enable readers to understand their own roles in systems of power and how they internalize the ideologies of those systems.

Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction

Author : Laurie Vickroy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813921280
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction written by Laurie Vickroy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... approach ... attempts to make readers sensitive to the ways trauma can be manifested in narrative; Duras and Morrison have most remarkably incorporated dissociative symptoms and fragmented identity and memory into their narrative voices." ; "... [other] writers ... who have also developed fictional techniques to express [trauma] ... include Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Dorothy Allison, Larry Heinemann, and Pat Barker."--Preface, p. x-xi.

Writing and Reading to Survive

Author : L Juliana M Claassens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910928783
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Reading to Survive written by L Juliana M Claassens and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trauma Narratives and Herstory

Author : S. Andermahr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137268352
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Trauma Narratives and Herstory written by S. Andermahr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from a wide array of international scholars, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences in texts by or about women, and in so doing articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification.

Contemporary Trauma Narratives

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317684702
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Trauma Narratives written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in which the texts fight the unrepresentability of trauma by performing rather than representing it. The ethicality or unethicality involved in this endeavor is assessed from the combined perspectives of the non-foundational, non-cognitive, discursive ethics of alterity inspired by Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethics of vulnerability. This approach makes Contemporary Trauma Narratives an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory.

Trauma in Contemporary Literature

Author : Marita Nadal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113473803X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Trauma in Contemporary Literature written by Marita Nadal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the most relevant concepts and themes discussed in trauma theory, such as the relationship between individual and collective trauma, historical trauma, absence vs. loss, the roles of perpetrator and victim, dissociation, nachträglichkeit, transgenerational trauma, the process of acting out and working through, introjection and incorporation, mourning and melancholia, the phantom and the crypt, postmemory and multidirectional memory, shame and the affects, and the power of resilience to overcome trauma. Significantly, the essays not only focus on the phenomenon of trauma and its diverse manifestations but, above all, consider the elements that challenge the aporias of trauma, the traps of stasis and repetition, in order to reach beyond the confines of the traumatic condition and explore the possibilities of survival, healing and recovery.

Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory

Author : M. Balaev
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137365943
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory written by M. Balaev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable.

Trauma Narratives and Herstory

Author : S. Andermahr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137268352
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives

Author : Stella Setka
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498583849
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives written by Stella Setka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas such as slavery and genocide. Drawing on trauma theory and using an ethnic studies methodology, this book shows how phantasmic novels and films present historical trauma in ways that seek to invite reader/viewer empathy about the cultural groups represented. In so doing, the author argues that these texts also provide models of interracial alliances to encourage contemporary cross-cultural engagement as a restorative response to historical traumas. Further, the author examines how these narratives function as sites of cultural memory that provide a critical purchase on the enormity of enslavement, genocide, and dispossession.

Holocaust Narratives

Author : Thorsten Wilhelm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000171086
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Narratives written by Thorsten Wilhelm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust – and in the process add meaning to what is inherently an event that annihilates meaning – but also construct the trauma as a connector to a past that needs to be continued in the present? Meaningless or not, unspeakable or not, unknowable or not, the trauma, in all its impossibilities and intractabilities, spawns literary and scholarly engagement on a large scale. Narrative is the key connector that structures trauma for both individual and collective.

Other Cultures of Trauma

Author : Sophie Croisy
Publisher : VDM Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783836425841
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Other Cultures of Trauma written by Sophie Croisy and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This dissertation draws on psychoanalytical theory (both by reclaiming its use and dispelling its myths), queer theory, and post-colonial literature (and theory) to propose new ways of analyzing trauma (personal and communal, the two being intricately linked). This work is grounded in traumatic history and seeks to recuperate and analyze the erased traumas of history in order to think about new, sometimes uncanny, methods of coping with or seeking reparation for the bodily, psychological, and political disaster that is trauma. These new methods are born out of an analysis of conventional psychoanalytical responses to traumatic events, an analysis which involves a conversation between different frames of thinking (psychoanalysis, queer theory, and postcolonial literature and theory as mentioned above) through which I can unveil the characteristics of irresponsible responses to trauma and propose what I believe are productive, performative responses to the forgotten disasters of history.

Trauma Fiction

Author : Anne Whitehead
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074866601X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Trauma Fiction written by Anne Whitehead and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together for the first time. Trauma Fiction focuses on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides innovative readings of texts by Pat Barker, Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W. G. Sebald and Binjamin Wilkomirski. It also considers the ways in which trauma has affected fictional form, exploring how novelists have responded to the challenge of writing traumatic narratives, and identifying the key stylistic features associated with the genre. In addition, the book introduces the reader to key critics in the field of trauma theory such as Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman and Geoffrey Hartman. The linking of trauma theory and literary texts not only sheds light on works of contemporary fiction, it also points to the inherent connections between trauma theory and the literary which have often been overlooked. The distinction between literary theme and style in the book opens up major questions regarding the nature of trauma itself. Trauma, like the novels discussed, is shown to take an uncertain but productive place between content and form.Key Features*Idenitifes and explores a new and evolving genre in contemporary fiction*Thinks through the relation between trauma and literature*Produces innovative readings of key works of contemporary fiction *Provides an introduction to key ideas in trauma theory

Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature

Author : Blanka Grzegorczyk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351385380
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature written by Blanka Grzegorczyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how children’s writers find the means to express the local conditions and different facets of the global wars around terror. The texts examined in this book reveal a preoccupation with overcoming various forms of violence and prejudice faced by certain groups within post-terror Britain, as well as a concern with mapping out their social relations with other groups, and those concerns are set against the recurring themes of racist paranoia, anti-immigrant hostility, politicized identities, and growing up in countries transformed by the effects of terror and counter-terror. The book concentrates on the relationship between postcolonial and critical race studies, Britain’s colonial legacy, and literary representations of terrorism, tracing thematic and formal similarities in the novels of both established and emerging children’s writers such as Elizabeth Laird, Sumia Sukkar, Alan Gibbons, Muhammad Khan, Bali Rai, Nikesh Shukla, Malorie Blackman, Claire McFall, Miriam Halahmy, and Sita Brahmachari. In doing so, this study maps new connections for scholars, students, and readers of contemporary children’s fiction who are interested in how such writing addresses some of the most pressing issues affecting us today, including survival after terror, migration, and community building.

Discovering the Religious Dimension of Trauma

Author : Caralie Cooke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900452360X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Religious Dimension of Trauma written by Caralie Cooke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads the Joseph novella alongside contemporary trauma novels to reveal a story written by people trying to reconstruct their assumptive world after the shattering of their old one. It also highlights the religious dimension in trauma theory.

Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing

Author : Tiziana de Rogatis
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8893772558
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing written by Tiziana de Rogatis and published by Sapienza Università Editrice. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is the first to propose new readings of Italian and transnational female-authored texts through the lens of Trauma Studies. Illuminating a space that has so far been left in the shadows, Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing provides new insights into how the trope of trauma shapes the narrative, temporal and linguistic dimension of these works. The various contributions delineate a landscape of female-authored Italian and transnational trauma narratives and their complex textual negotiation of suffering and pathos, from the twentieth century to the present day. These zones of trauma engender a new aesthetics and a new reading of history and cultural memory as an articulation of female creativity and resistance against a dominant cultural and social order.