Description |
x, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 95 |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 95
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Contents |
1. Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literature of Trauma --2. A Form of Witness: The Holocaust and North American Memory -- 3. Between the Lines: Reading the Vietnam War -- 4. The Farmer of Dreams: The Writings of W. D. Ehrhart -- 5. There was No Plot, and I Discovered It by Mistake: Trauma, Community, and the Revisionary Process -- 6. We Didn't Know What Would Happen: Opening the Discourse on Sexual Abuse -- 7. This is About Power on Every Level: Three Incest Survivor Narratives |
Summary |
Worlds of Hurt presents a coherent rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation, using as its focus the Holocaust, the Viet Nam war, and the phenomenon of sexualized violence against women. Survivors of these traumas constitute themselves as unique communities and bear witness to their traumatic experiences both privately and publicly. Each community has a vested interest in its own story and the stories told about its members by outsiders |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-286) and index |
Subject |
Psychic trauma.
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Victims -- Psychology.
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Violence -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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LC no. |
96112813 |
ISBN |
052156512X |
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0521445043 |
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