Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory [electronic resource] /
Balaev, M.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered; 2 Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma; 3 Secondary Thinking and Trauma: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground; 4 Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; 5 Trauma and Power in Postcolonial Literary Studies; 6 Voices of Survivors in Contemporary Fiction; 7 Memory and Commemoration in the Digital Present; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.