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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953667903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• ISBN: 9781349473953; 1349473952; 9781137365941; 1137365943
• 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; European literature; Literature - History and criticism; Twentieth-Century Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; European 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.