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Title: Reading Trauma Narratives
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression
Author: Laurie Vickroy
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780813937380
ISBN: 9780813937380
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture
Release Date: 30/10/2015
Description: 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 analyzes the ways in which her selected texts engage readers both cognitively and ethically to reveal their own roles in systems of power and how they internalize the ideologies of those systems.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 310g
Type: Linguistics
Release Year: 2015

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