Name: Trauma Narratives and Herstory
ISBN: 978-1-137-26835-8

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Sonya Andermahr (Reader in English)⁰,
Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (Lecturer)¹

Sonya Andermahr
1. University of Northampton, UK
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Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
1. Department of English and German Philology and the Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza, Spain
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Front Matter

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Trauma Narratives and Herstory
1. Trauma Narratives and Herstory
  
  Sonya Andermahr, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
  
  Pages 1-10
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
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
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
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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

University of Northampton, UK

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

Silvia Pellicer-Ortín

About the editors

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

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Trauma Narratives and Herstory
Editors: Sonya Andermahr, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137268358
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-26834-1Published: 11 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44343-7Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-26835-8Published: 09 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 228
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction, North American Literature, Literary History, Feminism

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