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Reading Trauma Narratives - Laurie Vickroy

Reading Trauma Narratives

The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2015
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-3738-0 (ISBN)
CHF 36,55 inkl. MwSt
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 analyzes the ways in which her selected texts engage readers both cognitively and ethically to reveal their own roles in systems of power and how they internalize the ideologies of those systems.

Laurie Vickroy, Professor of English at Bradley University, USA is author of Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction (Virginia).

Verlagsort Charlottesville
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 310 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8139-3738-8 / 0813937388
ISBN-13 978-0-8139-3738-0 / 9780813937380
Zustand Neuware
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