Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory

"Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory showcases some of the leading scholars in literary criticism who take trauma studies in a new direction by broadening the theoretical foundations and future directions of the field through innovative analyses of trauma in literature and culture. Trauma causes a disruption, but the values attached to this experience are influenced by a variety of individual and cultural factors that change over time. Trauma may at times forever silence one, yet trauma canequally at times reorient consciousness in an adaptive fashion that eschews pathology. This collection of essays 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"--

List of contents

1. Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered; Michelle Balaev 2. Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma; Barry Stampfl 3. Secondary Thinking and Trauma: Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground; Herman Rapaport 4. Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things ; Greg Forter 5. Trauma and Power in Postcolonial Literary Studies; Irene Visser 6. Voices of Survivors in Contemporary Fiction; Laurie Vickroy 7. Memory and Commemoration in the Digital Present; Paul Arthur Notes Index

About the author

Paul Arthur, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Greg Forter, University of South Carolina, USA
Herman Rapaport, Wake Forest University, USA
Barry Stampfl, San Diego State University, USA
Laurie Vickroy, Bradley University, USA
Irene Visser, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Balaev
• Assisted by: Balaev (Editor), M Balaev (Editor), M. Balaev (Editor), Michelle Balaev (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2014
• EAN: 9781137365934
• ISBN: 978-1-137-36593-4
• No. of pages: 187
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy