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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828097003321

Titolo

Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory / / edited by M. Balaev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-47395-2

1-137-36594-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Classificazione

LIT006000

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

Literature—Philosophy

Culture—Study and teaching

British literature

Literature—History and criticism

Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

British and Irish Literature

Literary History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered; 2 Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma; 3 Secondary Thinking and Trauma: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground; 4 Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; 5 Trauma and Power in Postcolonial Literary Studies; 6 Voices of Survivors in Contemporary Fiction; 7 Memory and Commemoration in the Digital Present; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the



concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable.