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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of Language . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Caruth Cathy . ( 1996 ) 2016 . Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History . Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press . Caruth Cathy . 2013 . Literature in the Ashes of History . Baltimore : John Hopkins University...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2020
... 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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 551–558.
Published: 01 December 2010
...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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 128–137.
Published: 01 March 2015
... just how spectatorial Americans’ relationship with 9/11 really was, insisting that even at that moment Americans’ trauma lay not so much in experiencing as in witnessing. Here, as throughout Bachner’s study, the ethical aspect of how we speak of the violence we do to one another and the violence others...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 437–466.
Published: 01 December 2005
...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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 249–274.
Published: 01 September 2006
...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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 421–448.
Published: 01 December 2003
...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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 275–294.
Published: 01 September 2018
...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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... 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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 247–270.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 483–503.
Published: 01 December 2018
...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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 197–222.
Published: 01 June 2016
... 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. Works cited Aristarkhova Irina . 2012 . Hospitality...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 421–432.
Published: 01 December 2004
... 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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 June 2012
...” (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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 June 2016
... is “forcibly severed from the social fabric, stigmatized, silenced, possibly physically dismembered” (2). As dys articulate, this figure is “blocked from language, standing at the convergence of all of language’s impasses: those of injury, trauma, neurological variation, socio-political silencing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
... 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
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
... 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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2001
...
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
...) and Hannibal Rising (2006) into a World War II orphan-avenger, whose first experience of cannibalism is the forced consumption of his younger sister at the hands of Slavic Nazi collaborators, and how his subsequent cannibalistic murders are positioned as an “ethical response” to his wartime trauma. This essay...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 467–476.
Published: 01 December 2022
...] is manifold and conspicuous” (111) and offers a symbolic linkage between these two characters who have for the most part been read by scholars as distinct. Ultimately, Caithleen’s “compulsion to repeat as well as repair the unconscious sexual elements of her family trauma . . . leaves her prey to a series...
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