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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 217–222.
Published: 01 September 2006
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 91–108.
Published: 01 October 2021
... novel, Acceptance . Rather than some contaminated space, Area X is restoring Earth’s ecosystems to a “pristine” state, but in a process of guided succession that traumatizes human life as lived under ecologically destructive neoliberal economies of extraction. Reading the twinned falls of Saul...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... The article suggests that despite the novel’s intense performance of self-reflexivity, it demonstrates a traumatic suppression of its own immediate historical conditions, particularly its temporal proximity to the events of the First Gulf War. This article thus reads the text’s telling silences and its...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 133–142.
Published: 01 October 2019
... as a type of literary memorial and then posits a different way of reading it as a form of active remembering and traumatic return. The essay also points toward the insights of disability studies and how that framework allows a definition of the human that sees loss as constitutive and hence “normal” rather...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as another figuration of the trauma subject as articulated within the mode of horror. To be traumatized is to be entrapped within carceri , within chaotic, claustrophobic psychic spaces, but it is also to be taken out of oneself—pitilessly torn away from ordinary life and ordinary identity and rapt aloft...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 50–65.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of traumatic events breaking through weak spots in time and connecting disparate moments and people offers one way of understanding the novel’s untidy ending. Are the leaves and canvases that mysteriously (dis)appear in the attic merely the result of Sarah’s hallucinations? Or could the leaves and changing...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to the writer Lu Xun, whose influential “Diary of a Madman” (1918) tells of its narrator’s discovery that historical stories about Chinese cannibalism may not always have been fables or metaphors. Lu Xun’s “madman” is traumatized by reading stories of atrocity as horror rather than as philosophy. Carlos Rojas...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 9–19.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... In other words, the difficulty of imagining and visualizing the slow process of traumatic economic decline in Braddock is remedied through the addition of Martin, with his potent mix of fantastic and real characteristics. Martin constantly reminds us how we are always missing something when we fall back...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and its cognates, amnesia and commemoration. Memory has witnessed a remarkable efflorescence in the past few years, both in scholarly work in the humanities and in popular efforts to address the collective forgetting of traumatic pasts. While the interrelationship between history (the study of past events...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., politicians, artists, etc.) shape public narratives surrounding an event until it has been naturalized as traumatic.” 44 By disposing of these key creators of public trauma and exchanging the indelible, threatening, publicly accepted traumatic memory of September 11 for the anti-art of vaporwave’s near...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 September 2008
... as are consistently kept separate from any politics o f identity. Jenny Edkins speaks o f the political effects o f traum a in term s o f the alienation of the trau matized subject from the social order, noting the tension that arises when "the only words [the traumatized] have are the words o f the very political...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 86–98.
Published: 01 October 2019
... teenage rebel fighter was . . . brilliantly recapitulating an inventive pre-colonial tradition, where dress served to disguise and protect, rather than express, the true character of the warrior.” 34 But this recrafting of indigenous practices produced the very atrocities that constitute the traumatic...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 April 2019
... such as Picasso found to possess disturbing formal affinities with their own works. 6 If the war manifests in canonical modernism as traumatic flashbacks in the consciousness of soldiers returned home from the claustrophobic trenches at the front, as in the works of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, F. Scott...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 63–77.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of encounters with a variety of suffering, unhappy peo ple; a violent, traumatic experience which shocks him out of his sense of dis tance from others; the final expression of an awakened outgoing feeling for o th e r people.11 Few critics, however, have considered Wallant s fiction in the con text...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of an exception that has just shattered some ongoing, uneventful ordinary life that was supposed to just keep going on and with respect to which people felt solid and confident. . . . A traumatic event is simply an event that has the capacity to induce trauma. My claim is that most such happenings that force...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of destiny and loss is also a trope of Andalusian diasporic lyric poetry, in which the symbolic imageries of mourning for the traces of the absent beloved channels traumatic memories of lost cities and homelands in Iberia. McKay’s quasi-Orientalist “Mektoub” also indicates his exposure to these poetic tropes...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 7–21.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Chieftain King Philip’s War against the colonists.” It subsequently came into the collection of “Hingham historian” George Lincoln before descending to present-day collectors. 6 As indicated on the labels, the pegboard highlights the identity of Hobart the colonist and foregrounds the traumatic leveling...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the technological will, and the “terminal condition” of endless routine. 44 It is here that the horror of Marebito intermingles with pleasure, for to the extent that the film concludes with a return to the traumatic Darwinian scene, this relinquishing of the human creates space for a new story, one of “linked...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 114–126.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the traumatized consciousness that will vanish with the last survivors. Rather, the temporal blurring arising from survivor memory disturbance exists for other purposes, such as historicized irony and diegetic mystery. This is clear in Irene Dische’s short story “The Doctor Needs a Home,” from her 1995 collection...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 79–82.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Fanshaw, Alice Thornton, and Anne Halkett each of whom participated in and chronicled her participation in Civil War events. Their expe riences range from Fanshaw s account of h er escapades to save her husband to T hornton s descriptions of h er traumatic labors and the loss of several of her newborns...
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