Trauma narratives and herstory / edited by Sonya Andermahr and Silvia Pellicer-Ortin.

Other author Andermahr, Sonya.
Other author Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia, 1984-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBasingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
Subjects
Women in literature--History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Women--History.

Contents Introduction: Trauma Narratives and Herstory; Sonya Andermahr and Silvia Pellicer-Ort̕n -- PART I: TRAUMA AS DISLOCATION IN FEMALE NARRATIVES -- 1. 'Compulsively readable and deeply moving': Women's Middlebrow Trauma Fiction; Sonya Andermahr -- 2. Dislocations and Traumas in Cristina Garc̕a's Dreaming in Cuban and Loida Martiza P̌rez's Geographies of Home; Simone A. Aguiar -- 3. Trauma, Female Identity and the Trope of Splitness in Figes, Lessing, Tennant and Weldon; Olga Glebova -- 4. Of Grandmothers and Bad Wolves: Fairy Tale, Myth and Trauma in Eva Figes' Tales of Innocence and Experience; Julia Tofantcuk -- PART II: TRAUMA NARRATIVES AND FEMALE SURVIVAL STRATEGIES -- 5. Trauma and Survival in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, or the power of alternative stories; M̌lanie Grǔ -- 6. Overcoming Double Victimization in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, or the self-healing power of writing 'Herstory'; Vaľrie Croisille -- 7. 'Locking the Door': Self-Deception, Silence and Survival in Alice Munro's 'Vandals'; Corinne Bigot -- PART III: THE REWRITING OF HISTORY IN TRAUMA HERSTORIES -- 8. 'Stories never told': Canonicity, History and 'Herstory' in Dan Jacobson's Her Story and The God-Fearer; David Brauner -- 9. Herstory Unwritten: Trauma, Memory, Identity and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved; Emma Dom̕nguez Rǔ -- 10. Depathologising Racial Melancholia in Intergenerational Herstories; Hannah Ho Ming Yit -- PART IV: TRAUMA AND HERSTORY IN VISUAL CULTURES -- 11. Psychic resilience in the fragile images of A Petal: a post-Jungian perspective on retraumatisation; Emily Ashman -- 12. Wit(h)nessing Trauma in Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-Four Eyes; Claudia Lindner Leporda -- 13. Cartoon Tears: Diane Noomin's Baby Talk: A Tale of Four Miscarriages; Sarah Lightman.
Abstract This book draws together international scholars to examine the representation of female trauma and women's version of history in contemporary literature and culture. Focusing on texts by or about women, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences, and articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to trauma, the authors analyse a range of genres including fictional texts, autobiography, comics and film. Writers discussed include: Alice Walker, Eva Figes, Cristina Garc̕a, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Dorothy Allison, Diane Noomin and Maxine Hong Kingston, among others. Demonstrating a rich plurality of perspectives, the volume sheds light on the power of literature and art to enable minority subjects to come to terms with loss and trauma.
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Issued in other formPrinted edition: 9781349443437
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9781137268358 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1137268352 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9781137268341
ISBN1137268344
Standard identifier# 10.1057/9781137268358
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