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Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature (Hardcover, New)
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Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma
theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of
temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new
ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories
whose collaboration has never been addressed in such a systematic
and in-depth way. The volume shows how romance strategies have
become an essential component of trauma fiction in general and
traumatic realism in particular. It brings to the fore the
deconstructive powers of the darker type of romance and its
adequacy to perform traumatic acting out and fragmentation. It also
zooms in on the variations on the ghost story as medium for the
evocation of trans-generational trauma, as well as on the
therapeutic drive of romance that favors a narrative presentation
of the working-through phase of trauma. Chapters explore various
acceptations and extensions of psychic trauma, from the individual
to the cultural, analyzing narrative texts that belong in various
genres from the ghost story to the misery memoir to the graphic
novel. The selection of primary sources allows for a review of
leading contemporary British authors such as Peter Ackroyd, Martin
Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Sarah Waters and
Jeanette Winterson, and of those less canonical such as Jackie Kay,
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Justine Picardie, Peter Roche and Adam
Thorpe.
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