Father-daughter incest in twentieth-century American literature : the complex trauma of the wound and the voiceless / Christine Grogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grogan, Christine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Incest in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2016]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary study rereads father-daughter incest narratives of the last hundred years to argue for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences. Contributing to the work of the second-wave of trauma theory, this book responds in part to the psychological community, which failed to include complex PTSD in the DSM-5.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: "Flinching at the Word Father"; Chapter Two: "Naw You Ain't No Man"; Chapter Three: Morrison Responds to the Psychological Community in The Bluest Eye; Chapter Four: "White Trash" Trauma in Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina; Chapter Five: The Failure of Bearing Witness; Chapter Six: Convicting the Victim; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611479676

1611479673

OCLC:

960940525