"Foreign bodies"
Subtitle: trauma, corporeality, and textuality in contemporary American literature and culture
By: by Laura Di Prete.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Psychic trauma in literature; Psychoanalysis in literature -- United States; Suffering in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The form of absence : writing trauma, writing the body; title: The wound that wounds : trauma, subjectivity, and vision in the photography of Sally Mann; title: Foreign bodies : traumatic latency and corporeality in Beloved; title: Don Delillo's The body artist : performing the body, narrating trauma; title: Corporeal fantasies : trauma and the body in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina.