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Reading Trauma Narratives: The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression
Laurie Vickroy
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937380
SKU
V9780813937380
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About Laurie Vickroy
Laurie Vickroy, Professor of English at Bradley University, USA is author of Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction (Virginia).
Reviews for Reading Trauma Narratives: The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression
“Reading Trauma Narratives is a perceptive, timely, and challenging work."" —J. Brooks Bouson, Loyola University of Chicago