Trauma Narratives and Herstory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Trauma Narratives and Herstory

   1. Trauma Narratives and Herstory

      • Sonya Andermahr, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín

      Pages 1-10

3. Trauma as Dislocation in Female Narratives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. ‘Compulsively Readable and Deeply Moving’: Women’s Middlebrow Trauma Fiction

      • Sonya Andermahr

      Pages 13-29

   3. Traumatic Dislocations in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban and Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home

      • Simone A. Aguiar

      Pages 30-45

   4. Trauma, Female Identity and the Trope of Splitting in Lessing, Figes, Tennant and Weldon

      • Olga Glebova

      Pages 46-64

   5. Of Grandmothers and Bad Wolves: Fairy-Tale, Myth and Trauma in Eva Figes’s Tales of Innocence and Experience

      • Julia Tofantšuk

      Pages 65-79

4. Trauma Narratives and Female Survival Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Trauma and Survival in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, or the Power of Alternative Stories

      • Mélanie Grué

      Pages 83-97

   3. Overcoming Double Victimisation in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple or the Self-healing Power of Writing Herstory

      • Valérie Croisille

      Pages 98-112

   4. ‘Locking the Door’: Self-deception, Silence and Survival in Alice Munro’s ‘Vandals’

      • Corinne Bigot

      Pages 113-126

5. The Rewriting of History in Trauma Herstories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. ‘Stories Never Told’: Canonicity, History and Herstory in Dan Jacobson’s Her Story and The God-Fearer

      • David Brauner

      Pages 129-140

   3. Herstory Unwritten: Trauma, Memory, Identity and History in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

      • Emma Domínguez Rué

      Pages 141-152

   4. Depathologising Racial Melancholia in Intergenerational Herstories

      • Hannah Ho Ming Yit

      Pages 153-168

6. Trauma and Herstory in Visual Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Psychic Resilience in the Fragile Images of A Petal: A Post-Jungian Perspective on Retraumatisation

      • Emily Ashman

      Pages 171-187

   3. Wit(h)nessing Trauma in Keisuke Kinoshita’s Twenty-Four Eyes

      • Claudia Lindner Leporda

      Pages 188-203

   4. ‘Cartoon Tears’: Diane Noomin’s ‘Baby Talk: A Tale of 3 4 Miscarriages’

      • Sarah Lightman

      Pages 204-222

7. Back Matter

   Pages 223-228

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Featuring contributions from a wide array of international scholars, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences in texts by or about women, and in so doing articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification.

• fiction
• gender
• history of literature
• women

• University of Northampton, UK

  Sonya Andermahr

• Department of English and German Philology and the Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza, Spain

  Silvia Pellicer-Ortín

Simone A. Aguiar, Purdue University, USA Dr. Sonya Andermahr, University of Northampton, UK Dr Olga Glebova, Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa, Poland Julia Tofant uk, Tallinn University, Estonia Mélanie Grué, Université Paris Diderot, France Valérie Croisille, University of Limoges, France Corinne Bigot, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France David Brauner, University of Reading, UK Emma Domínguez-Rué, University of Lleida, Spain Hannah Ho Ming Yit, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Emily Ashman, La Trobe University, Australia Clauda Lindner Leporda, independent scholar Sarah Lightman, University of Glasgow, UK Dr. Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, University of Zaragoza, Spain

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