Trauma fiction

Trauma fiction / Anne Whitehead.

Displays intelligence, deep understanding of the conceptual issues surrounding trauma as a literary subject and originality. The book marks an important step forward in the development of trauma studies.' - Cathy Caruth, Winship Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitehead, Anne, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Fiction
Psychic trauma in literature
Romans.
Trauma's (psychologie)
Littérature moderne.
Littérature.
20e siècle.
Traumatisme psychique.
Thème littéraire.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • The past as revenant : trauma and haunting in Pat Barker's Another world
  • Telling tales : trauma and testimony in Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments
  • "Ground that will remember you" : trauma and landscape in Anne Michaels's Fugitive pieces
  • Othello in the ghetto : trauma and intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's The nature of blood
  • The butterfly man : trauma and repetition in the writing of W.G. Sebald
  • Recomposing the past : trauma and improvisation in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Jackie Kay's Trumpet.

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