Trauma Fiction
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780748618576
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Philosophy & theory of psychology; Semiotics & Theory; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Anthropology - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General
First sentence: The term 'trauma fiction' represents a paradox or contradiction: if trauma comprises an event or experience which overwhelms the individual and resists language or representation, how then can it be narrativised in fiction?
Description: This text focuses on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides readings of texts by Pat Barker Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W.G. Sebald and Benjamin Wilkomirski.