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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... The future that lies ahead, the history the speaker begs to “hold still,” risks becoming repetition: yet another waiting for yet another catastrophe, whatever form that catastrophe might take. historical trauma Yellow Fever Spanish influenza futurity knowing We know now, perhaps, as we have...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 873–875.
Published: 01 December 2018
... fiction in a predominantly white male genre, share some commonalities. Both manipulate time to suggest the ongoing presence of history and historical trauma, the limits of humanity, and our complicity in and responsibility for horrifying acts. In addition, both writers straddle genres: in her most...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 555–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the emotional trauma wrought by the war and a proposal for how the modern world might recover and move forward. Cannily manipulating time within the accessible form of the historical novel, Wharton makes readable a version of modern consciousness in which behavior and emotion, public time and private time...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of retaining a consistency
of U.S.-centric values and experience in Extremely Loud and Incredibly
Close seems less puzzling in light of the parallel coincidence of trau-
matic form and consistent content in the historical aftermath of the
event. Just as trauma is understood to entail a sudden break...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 451–458.
Published: 01 June 2010
.... Beginning with an interest in evolution-
ary biology, Fabian socialism, and historical analysis, Gilman was one of the
first writers to historicize gender formation and sex differentiation.
“Not Even Past”: Race, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and
Van Vechten. By Dorothy...
Journal Article
The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 141–168.
Published: 01 March 2003
... historical trauma. Aligning his own liter-
ary production with the artistic culture of folk songs, blues, and jazz,
Tseng 2003.3.10 08:14
The Lynching Plot in Toomer’s Cane 147
he seeks to weld...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2003
...’’ for
the postmodern, historical trauma that positions individuals outside histori-
cal narrative, displaced in the gap between knowledge and truth. Disclosure
and often (to borrow a phrase from Nelson) ‘‘studied self-disclosure’’ of ‘‘all...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of representing historical connection, enabling the immediacy of his characters’ traumas to extend not just to the exemplary dead but also to the past experiences of surviving former slaves. In other words, this extrapolation allows reparations to have a stake in present injustices and not merely to offer belated...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 227–253.
Published: 01 June 2021
... wrongs manifest across gothic forms in distress surrounding land and legacy as well as in an emphasis on futurity—all grounded in the maternal. As Yaeger indicates, the decaying body returns to the earth, which signals the second focus of this paper: landscapes marred by historical trauma concern...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 673–699.
Published: 01 December 2007
... and overpowering
Belton” (I, 134). After a lacuna in the text, Griggs concludes with a
significant reticence that after the “eventful night,” Belton worked no
more as a maid (I, 135). By raising the spectacle of the sodomized
black “boy”—the historical trauma that often remained unspoken...
Journal Article
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 658–665.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., historical trauma, storytelling, and community in the work of Louise Erdrich. This book’s engagement with texts such as Love Medicine (1984), The Plague of Doves (2008), and The Round House (2012) illuminates the ways in which Erdrich’s novels and children’s books embody what Gerald Vizenor terms...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... With historical trauma and the present in the same frame, Moore and Gebbie treat history less as something that must be vanquished and more as a doubleness that travels with the adult. Trauma is always present for the survivor because the “body keeps score” (van der Kolk 2015 ). However, part of the critical...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 621–648.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of reference is not aimed at eliminating history, but at
resituating it in our understanding, that is, of precisely permitting
history to arise where immediate understanding may not.21
Because trauma exists in an experiential, contextless netherworld, it
can, due to its very lack of historicity...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
... experience, Darieck Scott ( 2010 : 5) attends to the production of blackness as a result of “traumatizing violent domination and historical defeats,” especially as manifested in physical humiliation. While the harmed body makes appearances in both arguments, trauma remains for each a fundamentally psychic...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2015
... response to such texts. Implicating the
reader in such a way charts a different course than postmemory or trans
historical understandings of trauma; indeed, pairing readerly pleasure and
trauma offers a contentious but provocative new direction for literary
trauma theory.
Robin E. Field, King’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2015
... response to such texts. Implicating the
reader in such a way charts a different course than postmemory or trans
historical understandings of trauma; indeed, pairing readerly pleasure and
trauma offers a contentious but provocative new direction for literary
trauma theory.
Robin E. Field, King’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that
we readers often enjoy depictions of trauma, but then ourselves are trauma-
tized by our seemingly unethical response to such texts. Implicating the
reader in such a way charts a different course than postmemory or trans
historical understandings of trauma; indeed, pairing readerly pleasure...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that
we readers often enjoy depictions of trauma, but then ourselves are trauma-
tized by our seemingly unethical response to such texts. Implicating the
reader in such a way charts a different course than postmemory or trans
historical understandings of trauma; indeed, pairing readerly pleasure...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that
we readers often enjoy depictions of trauma, but then ourselves are trauma-
tized by our seemingly unethical response to such texts. Implicating the
reader in such a way charts a different course than postmemory or trans
historical understandings of trauma; indeed, pairing readerly pleasure...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 209–211.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that
we readers often enjoy depictions of trauma, but then ourselves are trauma-
tized by our seemingly unethical response to such texts. Implicating the
reader in such a way charts a different course than postmemory or trans
historical understandings of trauma; indeed, pairing readerly pleasure...
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