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Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Michelle Balaev

    1. Washington State University, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered

    • Michelle Balaev
    Pages 1-14

  3. Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma

    • Barry Stampfl
    Pages 15-41

  4. Secondary Thinking and Trauma: Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground

    • Herman Rapaport
    Pages 42-69

  5. Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

    • Greg Forter
    Pages 70-105

  6. Trauma and Power in Postcolonial Literary Studies

    • Irene Visser
    Pages 106-129

  7. Voices of Survivors in Contemporary Fiction

    • Laurie Vickroy
    Pages 130-151

  8. Memory and Commemoration in the Digital Present

    • Paul Arthur
    Pages 152-175

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 176-177
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This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Washington State University, USA

    Michelle Balaev

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Paul Arthur, University of Western Sydney, Australia Greg Forter, University of South Carolina, USA Herman Rapaport, Wake Forest University, USA Barry Stampfl, San Diego State University, USA Laurie Vickroy, Bradley University, USA Irene Visser, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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