Reading Trauma Narratives

Reading Trauma Narratives
Title Reading Trauma Narratives PDF eBook
Author Laurie Vickroy
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 261
Release 2015-10-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0813937396

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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.

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives

Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives
Title Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives PDF eBook
Author Stella Setka
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 175
Release 2020-05-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1498583849

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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.

Trauma Narratives and Herstory

Trauma Narratives and Herstory
Title Trauma Narratives and Herstory PDF eBook
Author S. Andermahr
Publisher Springer
Pages 232
Release 2013-04-09
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137268352

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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.

Discovering the Religious Dimension of Trauma

Discovering the Religious Dimension of Trauma
Title Discovering the Religious Dimension of Trauma PDF eBook
Author Caralie Cooke
Publisher BRILL
Pages 178
Release 2022-09-19
Genre Religion
ISBN 900452360X

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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.

Contemporary Trauma Narratives

Contemporary Trauma Narratives
Title Contemporary Trauma Narratives PDF eBook
Author Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher Routledge
Pages 289
Release 2014-06-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317684702

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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

Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
Title Contemporary American Trauma Narratives PDF eBook
Author Alan Gibbs
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 276
Release 2014-06-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0748694080

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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.

Voicing Trauma and Truth: Narratives of Disruption and Transformation

Voicing Trauma and Truth: Narratives of Disruption and Transformation
Title Voicing Trauma and Truth: Narratives of Disruption and Transformation PDF eBook
Author Oliver Bray
Publisher BRILL
Pages 316
Release 2020-10-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004399429

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