03829oam 22006494a 450 991079753750332120221206222655.00-8139-3739-6(CKB)3710000000471448(EBL)4401779(SSID)ssj0001558222(PQKBManifestationID)16183844(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001558222(PQKBWorkID)13719569(PQKB)10036697(MiAaPQ)EBC4401779(OCoLC)920466772(MdBmJHUP)muse46040(EXLCZ)99371000000047144820150618d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading trauma narratives[electronic resource] the contemporary novel and the psychology of oppression /Laurie VickroyCharlottesville :University of Virginia Press,2015.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2015©2015.1 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8139-3737-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Re-creating the split self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace -- Fear and commodification in the shaping of America in Toni Morrison's Paradise and A Mercy -- Obsessions and possessions in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom! -- The traumas of love and death in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body -- Trauma, gender, and commodification in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Invisible Monsters.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 offers a unique blend of interpretive frameworks. She draws on theories of trauma and narrative to analyze the ways in which her selected texts engage readers both cognitively and ethically-immersing them in, and yet providing perspective on, the flawed thinking and behavior of the traumatized and revealing how the psychology of fear can be a driving force for individuals as well as for society. Through this engagement, these writers enable readers to understand their own roles in systems of power and how they internalize the ideologies of those systems.Canadian fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)Psychology in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)Psychic trauma in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCanadian fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Psychology in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)Psychic trauma in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.813/.509353Vickroy Laurie1954-1480365MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910797537503321Reading trauma narratives3696981UNINA