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Literary trauma : sadism, memory, and sexual violence in American women's fiction /
"This book examines portrayals of political and psychological trauma, particularly sexual trauma, in the work of seven American women writers. Concentrating on novels by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, Gayl Jones, Leslie Marmon Silko, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2000.
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| Series: | SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : bearing witness
- Reading the unconscious in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
- Freud and feminism in Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina
- Hysteria and trauma in Pauline Hopkin's Of one blood; or, the hidden self
- Postmodern realism, truth and lies in Joyce Carol Oates's What I lived for
- Intertextuality and poststructural realism in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper"
- Conclusion : words finally spoken.