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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balaev, M., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

European literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

European Literature.

Literary History.

Local Subjects:

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

European Literature.

Literary History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9781349473953

1349473952

9781137365941

1137365943