Trauma Narratives and Herstory [electronic resource] /
Andermahr, Sonya.editor.
Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Trauma as dislocation in female narratives -- pt. II. Trauma narratives and female survival strategies -- pt. III. The rewriting of history in trauma herstories -- pt. IV. Trauma and herstory in visual cultures.
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.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Sociology.
Fiction.
America-Literatures.
Literature-History and criticism.
Feminist theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.
Fiction.
North American Literature.
Literary History.
Feminism.