Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory
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.
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Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory
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.
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Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory

Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory

Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory

Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349473953
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2014
Edition description: 1st ed. 2014
Pages: 177
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Arthur, University of Western Sydney, Australia Greg Forter, University of South Carolina, USA Herman Rapaport, Wake Forest University, USA Barry Stampfl, San Diego State University, USA Laurie Vickroy, Bradley University, USA Irene Visser, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Table of Contents

1. Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered; Michelle Balaev 2. Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma; Barry Stampfl 3. Secondary Thinking and Trauma: Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground; Herman Rapaport 4. Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things ; Greg Forter 5. Trauma and Power in Postcolonial Literary Studies; Irene Visser 6. Voices of Survivors in Contemporary Fiction; Laurie Vickroy 7. Memory and Commemoration in the Digital Present; Paul Arthur Notes Index
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