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'Victoria Stewart's book, Women's Autobiography: War and Trauma , expands the current academic discourse in the field of trauma studies. Whereas a great deal of attention has been paid to memoirs of war and shellshock, Stewart focuses on more ambiguous and complicated autobiographical texts written by bereft noncombatants or victims of Nazi persecution, and sheds new light on war memoirs by Vera Brittain, Virginia Woolf, Anne Frank, Charlotte Delbo, and the children of Holocaust survivors. This is an incisive and compelling text that breaks new ground in its serious consideration of the kind of ineffable trauma and homelessness passed, as an unspeakable bequest, from parent to child in a classical scenario of torment unthinkable before the 20th century. Victoria Stewart offers a riveting examination of trauma and narrative reformulation in a century of unprecedented historical struggle.' - Suzette Henke, Morton Professor of Literature, University of Louisville, USA
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Book Title: Women's Autobiography
Book Subtitle: War and Trauma
Authors: Victoria Stewart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513792
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0306-8Published: 16 September 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50851-8Published: 01 January 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51379-2Published: 16 September 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 204
Topics: Gender Studies, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature, general, Fiction