Women Writing Trauma in the Global South A Study of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy

Through exploring complex suffering in the writings of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy, Women Writing Trauma in the Global South dismantles conceptual shortcomings and problematic imbalances at the core of existing theorizations around psychological trauma. The global constellation of women writers from Sierra Leone, Chile and India facilitates a productive analysis of how the texts navigate intertwined experiences of individual and systemic trauma. The discussion departs from a recent critical turn in literary and cultural trauma studies and transgresses many interrelated boundaries of geocultural contexts, language and genre. Discovering the role of literary forms in reparative articulation and empathic witnessing, this critical intervention develops new ideas for an inclusive conceptual expansion of trauma from the global peripheries and contributes to the ongoing debate on marginalized suffering.

Info autore

Annemarie Pabel is an independent researcher with a PhD in English literature. Her research interests include trauma studies and women’s writing.

Riassunto

Women Writing Trauma in the Global South explores complex suffering in the work of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy while dismantling conceptual shortcomings underlying trauma theory. It develops new ideas for an inclusive conceptual expansion of trauma from the global peripheries.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Annemarie Pabel
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 30.09.2022
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche cliniche; Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9781032211176
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221117-6
• Numero di pagine: 174
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
• Categorie: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, literary trauma studies, cultural trauma theory, gendered violence narratives, postcolonial literature analysis, psychological wounding, trauma representation in global literature, narrative witnessing