Reading Trauma Narratives
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Reading Trauma Narratives
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Author : Laurie Vickroy
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2015-10-30
Reading Trauma Narratives written by Laurie Vickroy and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Palahniuk, she shows how these writers try to enlarge our understanding of the relationship between individual traumas and the social forces of injustice, oppression, and objectification. Further, she argues, their work provides striking examples of how the devastating effects of trauma—whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial—on individual personality can be depicted in narrative. Vickroy offers a unique blend of interpretive frameworks. She draws on theories of trauma and narrative to analyze the ways in which her selected texts engage readers both cognitively and ethically—immersing them in, and yet providing perspective on, the flawed thinking and behavior of the traumatized and revealing how the psychology of fear can be a driving force for individuals as well as for society. Through this engagement, these writers enable readers to understand their own roles in systems of power and how they internalize the ideologies of those systems.
Writing And Reading To Survive
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Author : L Juliana M Claassens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-29
Writing And Reading To Survive written by L Juliana M Claassens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-29 with Religion categories.
Contemporary Trauma Narratives
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Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-27
Contemporary Trauma Narratives written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in which the texts fight the unrepresentability of trauma by performing rather than representing it. The ethicality or unethicality involved in this endeavor is assessed from the combined perspectives of the non-foundational, non-cognitive, discursive ethics of alterity inspired by Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethics of vulnerability. This approach makes Contemporary Trauma Narratives an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory.
Empathy And The Phantasmic In Ethnic American Trauma Narratives
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Author : Stella Setka
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Empathy And The Phantasmic In Ethnic American Trauma Narratives written by Stella Setka and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas such as slavery and genocide. Drawing on trauma theory and using an ethnic studies methodology, this book shows how phantasmic novels and films present historical trauma in ways that seek to invite reader/viewer empathy about the cultural groups represented. In so doing, the author argues that these texts also provide models of interracial alliances to encourage contemporary cross-cultural engagement as a restorative response to historical traumas. Further, the author examines how these narratives function as sites of cultural memory that provide a critical purchase on the enormity of enslavement, genocide, and dispossession.
Discovering The Religious Dimension Of Trauma
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Author : Caralie Cooke
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-09-19
Discovering The Religious Dimension Of Trauma written by Caralie Cooke and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-19 with Religion categories.
This book reads the Joseph novella alongside contemporary trauma novels to reveal a story written by people trying to reconstruct their assumptive world after the shattering of their old one. It also highlights the religious dimension in trauma theory.
Unclaimed Experience
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Author : Cathy Caruth
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-12-15
Unclaimed Experience written by Cathy Caruth and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The pathbreaking work that founded the field of trauma studies. In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century—both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it—we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, she contends, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding may not. Caruth explores the ways in which the texts of psychoanalysis, literature, and literary theory both speak about and speak through the profound story of traumatic experience. Rather than straightforwardly describing actual case studies of trauma survivors, or attempting to elucidate directly the psychiatry of trauma, she examines the complex ways that knowing and not knowing are entangled in the language of trauma and in the stories associated with it. Caruth’s wide-ranging discussion touches on Freud’s theory of trauma as outlined in Moses and Monotheism and Beyond the Pleasure Principle. She traces the notion of reference and the figure of the falling body in de Man, Kleist, and Kant; the narratives of personal catastrophe in Hiroshima mon amour; and the traumatic address in Lecompte’s reinterpretation of Freud’s narrative of the dream of the burning child. In this twentieth-anniversary edition of her now classic text, a substantial new afterword addresses major questions and controversies surrounding trauma theory that have arisen over the past two decades. Caruth offers innovative insights into the inherent connection between individual and collective trauma, on the importance of the political and ethical dimensions of the theory of trauma, and on the crucial place of literature in the theoretical articulation of the very concept of trauma. Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field.
Trauma And Narration As A Way Of Coping With Trauma In Mary Karr S The Liars Club
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Author : Annika Kelm
language : de
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2020-07-09
Trauma And Narration As A Way Of Coping With Trauma In Mary Karr S The Liars Club written by Annika Kelm and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with Literary Collections categories.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: Family Affairs: Recent American Memoir, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The recollection of traumatic memories is often fraught with enormous difficulties for a person affected by trauma. This is due to a disruption of memories, something that Cathy Caruth alludes to in her definition of trauma in Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by stating that the “response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled, repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena”. In her definition, Caruth refers to the distorted powers of recollection that very often only allow the traumatised person to access small fragments, if any at all, of the traumatic event. Even though this derangement of memories constitutes a type of psychological defence, and therewith temporarily serves the psyche as a means of protection, it is not conducive to one’s mental health in the longer term. A much more beneficial long-term effect on the psyche of traumatised persons can be achieved through the conscious narration of trauma. In order for the traumatic event not to be triggered arbitrarily, the traumatic event must consciously be placed into the context of one’s own life story. Based on Mary Karr’s novel The Liars’ Club, this term paper not only reveals what it is that initially prevents the author from the sincere coping with trauma, but also analyses how Karr makes use of her post-traumatic experiences in the writing process in order to overcome these. So as to better illustrate the underlying themes of trauma, this paper includes several subsections that will help to gain further insights into the subject matter. Firstly, I would like to introduce the psychological effects of trauma and I hence included a subsection on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that shall introduce the basic relevance which trauma implicates. Secondly, I included a subsection on the two different pattern of defense of dissociation and repression as these frequently appear throughout the memoir. Following this, I added a section regarding the narration of trauma. A first subsection on the Narrative Exposure Therapy allows the reader to learn about a psychotherapeutic approach which is often used for the treatment of people suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. A second subsection on certain writing strategies encompassing the narration of trauma shall complete the theoretical framework of this paper.
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
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Author : Alan Gibbs
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-16
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives written by Alan Gibbs and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as OCymetafictionOCO, as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the Iraq War, and reactions to the Bush administration.
Trauma Narration In Patricia Mccormick S Novel Sold The Impact Of Human Trafficking
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Author : Lisa Thöne
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2024-05-31
Trauma Narration In Patricia Mccormick S Novel Sold The Impact Of Human Trafficking written by Lisa Thöne and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Trauma Narratives, language: English, abstract: This paper analyzes Patricia McCormick's novel "Sold" to explore how it captures the experiences of trauma resulting from human trafficking. The paper examines the novel's narrative techniques, the protagonist Lakshmi's emotional journey, and the creation of reader empathy. It demonstrates how "Sold" fulfills the key functions of a trauma narrative. For the analysis part, this paper examines which functions of Laurie Vickroy’s theory of trauma narratives Patricia McCormick fulfills in her novel Sold. During the course, the role of Lakshmi’s language, which reveals the development of her thoughts and feelings, the impact of people accompanying her on her journey, as well as the aspect of creating reader empathy, will shape the discourse. Weighing everything up, the paper will arrive at a conclusion. In so doing, the overall purpose is to prove that Sold fulfills all of the three main functions of a trauma narrative by Laurie Vickroy because other characters either enhance or reduce the traumatic experience, Lakshmi's trauma is dependent on numerous aspects that interplay during the novel, and the reader is bound to the traumatic experience.
Trauma Fiction
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Author : Anne Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-27
Trauma Fiction written by Anne Whitehead and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together for the first time. Trauma Fiction focuses on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides innovative readings of texts by Pat Barker, Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W. G. Sebald and Binjamin Wilkomirski. It also considers the ways in which trauma has affected fictional form, exploring how novelists have responded to the challenge of writing traumatic narratives, and identifying the key stylistic features associated with the genre. In addition, the book introduces the reader to key critics in the field of trauma theory such as Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman and Geoffrey Hartman. The linking of trauma theory and literary texts not only sheds light on works of contemporary fiction, it also points to the inherent connections between trauma theory and the literary which have often been overlooked. The distinction between literary theme and style in the book opens up major questions regarding the nature of trauma itself. Trauma, like the novels discussed, is shown to take an uncertain but productive place between content and form.Key Features*Idenitifes and explores a new and evolving genre in contemporary fiction*Thinks through the relation between trauma and literature*Produces innovative readings of key works of contemporary fiction *Provides an introduction to key ideas in trauma theory