Shattered subjects
Subtitle: trauma and testimony in women's life-writing
By: Suzette A. Henke.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Colette, 1873-1954 -- Criticism and interpretation; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Autobiography -- Women authors; Commonwealth prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women authors, Commonwealth -- Biography -- History and criticism; Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism; Autobiography -- Psychological aspects; Psychic trauma in literature; Women and literature
Description: In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Shattered Subjects explores the autobiographical writings of six twentieth-century women authors who experienced life-shattering trauma and used their writings as a means for survival and healing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-208) and index.