Reading trauma narratives [[electronic resource] ] : the contemporary novel and the psychology of oppression / / Laurie Vickroy

• Autore: Vickroy Laurie <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2015; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.509353
• Soggetto topico: Canadian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Psychology in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Psychic trauma in literature; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading trauma narratives
• ISBN: 0-8139-3739-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797537503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II