Reading trauma narratives : the contemporary novel & the psychology of oppression / Laurie Vickroy.
By: Vickroy, Laurie [author.].
Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015Description: xv, 198 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780813937380.Subject(s): American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Psychic trauma in literature | Narration (Rhetoric) | Psychology in literature | Modernism (Literature) | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PS374.P69 V53 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000011322 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index.
Introduction: Ways of reading trauma in literary narratives -- 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 -- Conclusion: Trauma as a critical juncture of society, culture, and human psychology.
"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."--Provided by publisher.