ISBN:
9781137268341
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIII, 228 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Trauma Narratives and Herstory
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Trauma Narratives and Herstory; Part I: Trauma as Dislocation in Female Narratives; 2 'Compulsively Readable and Deeply Moving': Women's Middlebrow Trauma Fiction; 3 Traumatic Dislocations in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban and Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home; 4 Trauma, Female Identity and the Trope of Splitting in Lessing, Figes, Tennant and Weldon; 5 Of Grandmothers and Bad Wolves: Fairy-Tale, Myth and Trauma in Eva Figes's Tales of Innocence and Experience
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Trauma Narratives and Female Survival Strategies6 Trauma and Survival in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, or the Power of Alternative Stories; 7 Overcoming Double Victimisation in Alice Walker's The Color Purple or the Self-healing Power of Writing Herstory; 8 'Locking the Door': Self-deception, Silence and Survival in Alice Munro's 'Vandals'; Part III: The Rewriting of History in Trauma Herstories; 9 'Stories Never Told': Canonicity, History and Herstory in Dan Jacobson's Her Story and The God-Fearer
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Herstory Unwritten: Trauma, Memory, Identity and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved11 Depathologising Racial Melancholia in Intergenerational Herstories; Part IV: Trauma and Herstory in Visual Cultures; 12 Psychic Resilience in the Fragile Images of A Petal: A Post-Jungian Perspective on Retraumatisation; 13 Wit(h)nessing Trauma in Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-Four Eyes; 14 'Cartoon Tears': Diane Noomin's 'Baby Talk: A Tale of 3 4 Miscarriages'; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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