Reading Trauma Narratives

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"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.

subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  Narration (rhetoric),  Psychology in literature,  Modernism (literature),  English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  Canadian fiction, history and criticism,  Psychic trauma in literature,  History and criticism,  Canadian fiction,  English fiction,  American fiction