Trauma and survival in contemporary fiction /

Trauma and survival in contemporary fiction / Laurie Vickroy.

Trauma is a compelling and evocative topic in the contemporary world and as reflected in its literature. In unraveling trauma's effects, the texts studied in this volume reveal the intricacies of power and the relationship between society's demands and the individual's psychological w...

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Main Author: Vickroy, Laurie, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Duras, Marguerite > Knowledge and learning.
Psychology.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > West Indies > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Psychological fiction > History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
West Indian Americans in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Abused women in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Representing trauma : issues, contexts, narrative tools
  • Subjugation, nurturance, and legacies of trauma
  • The traumatized child as outcast in Duras and Morrison
  • "A Loved Version of Your Life" : healing and the provisional self
  • Remembering history through the body.

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