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Death Styles: The Language of Trauma and the Trauma of Language in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... 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...
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Law, Trauma, and Modernist Aesthetics
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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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The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007 by Sally Bachner, Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995–2010) by Aimee Pozorski
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 128–137.
Published: 01 March 2015
...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...
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Mourning through Memoir: Trauma, Testimony, and Community in Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth
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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...
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“New Words, New Everything”: Fragmentation and Trauma in Jean Rhys
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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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“Going All to Pieces”: A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative
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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...
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“A World of Tomorrow”: Trauma, Urbicide, and Documentation in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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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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Beckett in Purgatory: “Unspeakable” Watt and the Second World War
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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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Hannibal Lecter as Avenging War Orphan in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Rising
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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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Art Spiegelman’s Bounding Boxes: Mishkan, Midrash, Maus
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 317–366.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., 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...
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Unmaking Generations: On Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and the Pastness of the Past
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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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Dismembering Remembering: Mourning with Disgust in Delbo’s Auschwitz and After
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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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In Uniform Code: Catherine Barkley’s Wartime Nursing Service in A Farewell to Arms
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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. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Ernest Hemingway World War...
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Hegel Without Reserve
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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...
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Textual Scapegoating
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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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James Joyce and the Internal World of the Replacement Child by Mary Adams
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (1): 87–93.
Published: 01 March 2025
... 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...
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The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity , by James Berger
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 June 2016
... 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...
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The Novel in a Time of Terror: Middlesex, History, and Contemporary American Fiction
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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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M iddlesex...
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Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Josephine Nock-Hee Park; Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism by Amy Tang
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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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A New Hystery: History and Hysteria in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2001
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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...
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