Contemporary approaches in literary trauma theory
By: edited by Michelle Balaev
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781137365934
Subjects: Psychic trauma in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Description: "Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory showcases some of the leading scholars in literary criticism who take trauma studies in a new direction by broadening the theoretical foundations and future directions of the field through innovative analyses of trauma in literature and culture. Trauma causes a disruption, but the values attached to this experience are influenced by a variety of individual and cultural factors that change over time. Trauma may at times forever silence one, yet trauma can equally at times reorient consciousness in an adaptive fashion that eschews pathology. This collection of essays 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered; Michelle Balaev; title: 2. Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma; Barry Stampfl; title: 3. Secondary Thinking and Trauma: Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground; Herman Rapaport; title: 4. Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; Greg Forter; title: 5. Trauma and Power in Postcolonial Literary Studies; Irene Visser; title: 6. Voices of Survivors in Contemporary Fiction; Laurie Vickroy; title: 7. Memory and Commemoration in the Digital Present; Paul Arthur; title: Notes; title: Index.