Andermahr, Sonya
Trauma Narratives and Herstory
1. Trauma Narratives and Herstory
1. Trauma Narratives and Herstory
Sonya Andermahr, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
Part I. Trauma as Dislocation in Female Narratives
2. ‘Compulsively Readable and Deeply Moving’: Women’s Middlebrow Trauma Fiction
Sonya Andermahr
3. Traumatic Dislocations in Cristina Garcia’s
Simone A. Aguiar
4. Trauma, Female Identity and the Trope of Splitting in Lessing, Figes, Tennant and Weldon
Olga Glebova
5. Of Grandmothers and Bad Wolves: Fairy-Tale, Myth and Trauma in Eva Figes’s
Julia Tofantšuk
Part II. Trauma Narratives and Female Survival Strategies
6. Trauma and Survival in Dorothy Allison’s
Mélanie Grué
7. Overcoming Double Victimisation in Alice Walker’s
Valérie Croisille
8. ‘Locking the Door’: Self-deception, Silence and Survival in Alice Munro’s ‘Vandals’
Corinne Bigot
Part III. The Rewriting of History in Trauma Herstories
9. ‘Stories Never Told’: Canonicity, History and Herstory in Dan Jacobson’s
David Brauner
10. Herstory Unwritten: Trauma, Memory, Identity and History in Toni Morrison’s
Emma Domínguez Rué
11. Depathologising Racial Melancholia in Intergenerational Herstories
Hannah Ho Ming Yit
Part IV. Trauma and Herstory in Visual Cultures
12. Psychic Resilience in the Fragile Images of
Emily Ashman
13. Wit(h)nessing Trauma in Keisuke Kinoshita’s
Claudia Lindner Leporda
14. ‘Cartoon Tears’: Diane Noomin’s ‘Baby Talk: A Tale of 3 4 Miscarriages’
Sarah Lightman
Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction, North American Literature, Literary History, Feminism
- Editor
- Andermahr, Sonya
- Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 241 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137268358
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-44343-7