Title Literary trauma : sadism, memory, and sexual violence in American women's fiction / Deborah M. Horvitz

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (169 pages) Series SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. 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 Summary "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 Atwood, Harvitz investigates whether memories of violent and oppressive trauma can be preserved, even transformed into art, without reproducing that violence. The book encompasses a wide range of personal and political traumas, including domestic abuse, incest, rape, imprisonment, and slavery, and argues that an analysis of sadomasochistic violence is our best protection against cyclical, intergenerational violence, a particularly timely and important subject as we think about how to stop "hate" crimes and other forms of political and psychic oppression."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index Notes English Print version record Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States Women and literature -- United States Psychic trauma in literature. Sex crimes in literature. Violence in literature. Sadism in literature. Memory in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction -- Women authors Memory in literature Psychic trauma in literature Psychoanalysis and literature Psychological fiction, American Sadism in literature Sex crimes in literature Violence in literature Women and literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585426449 9780585426440 0791447111 9780791447116 079144712X 9780791447123

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