Trauma plot : a life / Jamie Hood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, Jamie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hood, Jamie.

Rape victims--United States--Biography.

Rape victims.

Trans women--United States--Biography.

Trans women.

Women authors, American--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Women--Violence against--United States.

Women.

Rape in literature.

Rape in art.

Genre:

Biography.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxx, 296 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2025]

Summary:

"In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, how to be a good girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood's "bold vulnerability," and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in good girl's margins-of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage left behind. With her trademark critical remove, Hood interrogates the archetype of the rape survivor, who must perform penitence long after living through the unthinkable, invoking some of art's most infamous women to have played the role: Ovid's Philomela, David Lynch's Laura Palmer, and Artemisia Gentileschi, who captured Judith's wrath. In so doing, she asks: What do we as a culture demand of survivors? And what do survivors, in turn, owe a world that has abandoned them? Trauma Plot is a scalding work of personal and literary criticism. It is a send-up of our culture's pious disdain for "trauma porn," a dirge for the broken promises of #MeToo, and a paean to finding life after death"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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We.

Other Format:

Online version: Hood, Jamie. Trauma plot

ISBN:

9780593700976

059370097X

9780593686089

059368608X

OCLC:

1435473931