Search Results for trauma

... the site of a woman’s struggle to find a voice in a world that has lost its ability to speak about the meaning, in this case, the trauma that has indelibly stained our relation to the world, ourselves, and each other. Thus, rather than referring to the father, I would argue that Malina is in fact...

...Elizabeth S. Anker The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination , By Reichman Ravit , Stanford University Press , 2009 . 213 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review Law,  Trauma, and Modernist Aesthetics The Affective Life of Law: Legal...

...Samuel Cohen I think there is something of this at work in Roth and Trauma . Pozorski’s insight that many of these works include allusions, such as American Pastoral ’s to Johnny Appleseed, that highlight a concern with a longer sweep of American history, back even to colonization...

...Richard Badenhausen Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Mourning through Memoir: Trauma, Testimony, and Community in Vera Brittain s Testament of Youth Richard Badenhausen A s she first began to sketch out a plan for writing Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain (1893-1970...

...Maren Linett Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m “ New Words, New Everything” : Fragmentation and Trauma in Jean Rhys Maren Linett Je a n Rhys’s novels present an intriguing case study for thinking about the status and meaning of fragmented text. With their polyvocal, nonlin­...

...Trevor Dodman Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 HI “ Going All to Pieces” : A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative Trevor Dodman Bullet wounds do not cause severe bleeding unless they hap­ pen to injure some large trunk or smash one of the larger bones. Wounds...

... of recuperating the English translation of the diary within the context of the scant supporting historical documentation and memorialization of Berliner women’s experience during the occupation. Second, it demonstrates how the diary produces a feminist account of survival and a narrative for collective trauma...

... stress and of Irish neutrality. Weaving together Beckett’s intertextual relationship with Dante’s Divine Comedy , the commonplace that Emergency-era Ireland was a cultural “purgatory,” and the language of trauma studies, this essay suggests that Watt can be productively read through the paradigm...

... of the atrocities of the Second World War—including freezing, starvation, immolation, and enslavement—to mitigate Lecter’s cannibalistic classism and restore his humanity. Lecter is rendered mute by the trauma of consuming his sister, the patrician Lecter Castle becomes a Soviet orphanage, and Lecter’s eventual...

..., commentary, object, memorial, testimony, even a kind of secular phylactery or reliquary, through which the son of survivors negotiates his parents’ trauma and the, push-pull of his own Jewish identity. Ultimately, the essay offers boxes as a, way (back) into Maus as a signal text both for Jewish identity...

...Thomas F. Haddox Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora has most often been read as testament to the continuity of the traumas of slavery and sexual violence across temporal and spatial boundaries—traumas transmitted and affirmed both through familial descent and through the enduring vitality of the blues...

...Amanda K. Greene This essay argues that Charlotte Delbo’s deployment of disgust in her memoir Auschwitz and After (1995) challenges the ethics and possibilities of trauma representation. As opposed to beautifying concentration camp victims through elegiac memorialization or claiming the sublime...

... unsanctioned by military authority. This reframing of A Farewell to Arms as Catherine’s war story rather than as her love story also reveals a Hemingway sensitive to how the trauma of World War I rewrote identity for women as well as men. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Ernest Hemingway World War...

... of Holocaust and trauma studies in recent years. In Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject, Paul Eisenstein explores how the Hegelian subject might be redeemed for Holocaust and trauma studies from a milieu that has sometimes led to its preemptive burial...

...” (64). Forter begins his chapter on Faulkner, “Versions of Traumatic Melan- cholia: The Burden of White Man’s History in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom by reworking the dominant understanding of Freud’s theory of trauma. He distinguishes his reworked model of trauma by its reliance...

... personal conflicts. Through her analysis, she highlights how Joyce’s creative output serves as a means of processing trauma and grappling with the emotional complexities of his identity. Adams’s overarching argument revolves around Joyce’s use of writing as a therapeutic mechanism for dealing...

... summary of Berger’s position, see his entry on “Trauma” in Keywords for Disability Studies (2015). 2 Berger points out that two of the defining books in these fields, Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience (1996) and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s Extraordinary Bodies (1997), were released just...

... constructed narratives— in particular, historical traumas— can affect the shape o f literary endings. This is espe­ cially the case, I will argue, for historical literature, work whose focus is explicidy on the past and always implicidy, as a result, on the way that 372 M iddlesex...

... is an important trope: “A closer engagement with the psychoanalytic dimensions of traumatic experience reveals trauma as in fact a structure of dis continuity and rupture—one that mirrors , rather than resolves, the belatedness and mediation associated with Asian American identity” (37). Tang opens up...

... tagonists can be read as hysterics: subjects haunted by the past, characters who unconsciously express repressed memories of psychic trauma through physical symptoms and use a corporeal discourse to articulate what is otherwise unspeakable. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis and em­...