Reading trauma narratives : the contemporary novel & the psychology of oppression /

As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing on novels by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Chuck Palahn...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Vickroy, Laurie, 1954-
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press 2015.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1729vnp
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Re-creating the split self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace
  • Fear and commodification in the shaping of America in Toni Morrison's Paradise and A Mercy
  • Obsessions and possessions in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom!
  • The traumas of love and death in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body
  • Trauma, gender, and commodification in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Invisible Monsters
  • Trauma as a Critical Juncture of Society, Culture, and Human Psychology