Shattered subjects

Description:

In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Shattered Subjects explores the autobiographical writings of six twentieth-century women authors who experienced life-shattering trauma and used their writings as a means for survival and healing.

subjects: Autobiography,  Psychic trauma in literature,  Women and literature,  Women authors, Commonwealth,  American prose literature,  History and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  Commonwealth Women authors,  Women authors,  Women authors, American,  American Women authors,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Autobiography,  Biography,  Commonwealth prose literature,  Écrivaines américaines,  Écrits de femmes anglais,  Biographies,  Critique et interprétation,  Aspect psychologique,  Autobiografieën,  Écrits de femmes autobiographiques,  Amerikaans,  Écrits de femmes américains,  Vrouwelijke auteurs,  Histoire et critique,  Écrivaines du Commonwealth,  Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature,  Autobiographie,  Autobiography, women authors

People: Colette (1873-1954)