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Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing

Autor Suzette A. Henke
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 1998
Judith Herman has noted that 'the most common post-traumatic disorders are those not of men in war but of women in civilian life.' How have women survived, both individually and collectively, in the face of unimaginable trauma? In this important new book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. The literary testimonies of Colette, Hilda Doolittle, AnaIs Nin, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, and Sylvia Fraser provide startling evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder precipitated by rape, incest, childhood sexual abuse, grief, unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy-loss, or severe illness. Their writings are used as a means for survival and healing. Henke analyzes traumatic narrative as the focal point of a large body of autobiographical practice representing the genre of narrative recovery. Shattered Subjects suggests that the powerful medium of written autobiographical testimony may allow the resolution or reconfiguration of the most emotionally distressing experiences.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780333754856
ISBN-10: 0333754859
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 141 x 222 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction
PART I: COLLETE'S AUTOFICTIONS: GENRE AND ENGENDERMENT
The Earthly Paradise
My Apprenticeships: The Specter of Willy
Break of Day
Postscript
PART II: H. D.: PSYCHOANALYTIC SELF-IMAGING
The Gift
Adult Trauma and the Madrigal Cycle: Asphodel and Bid Me to Live
PART III: ANAIS NIN'S INTERIOR CITIES: INCEST, ANXIETY AND FATHER-DAUGHTER LOSS FATHER-DAUGHTER LOSS
Father Loss and Incest
Daughter Loss and Maternal Anxiety
Narrative Recovery
PART IV: JANET FRAME'S NEW ZEALAND AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
A POSTCOLONIAL ODYSSEY
PART V: AUDRE LORDE'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN TESTIMONY
Biomythography: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Autopathography: The Cancer Journals and A Burst of Light
PART VI: SYLVIA FRASER'S MY FATHER'S HOUSE: A CANADIAN MEMOIR OF SEXUAL TRAUMA AND NARRATIVE RECOVERY
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted

Notă biografică

SUZETTE A. HENKE is Thruston B. Morton Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Louisville. She is the author of James Joyce and the Politics of Desire and Joyce's Moraculous Sindbook: A Study of 'Ulysses' and the co-editor of Women in Joyce.

Caracteristici

1 Links psychology and literary theory to autobiographical writings
2 Considers the writing of six women as examples, including Hilda Doolittle and AnaIs Nin
3 Situates writings in their autobiographical context