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The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma (Hardcover)
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The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma (Hardcover)
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The first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by
troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and
financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence,
violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing
racial and religious conflict. While traumas involving large-scale
or historical violence are widely represented in trauma theory,
familial trauma is still largely considered a private matter,
associated with personal failure. This book contributes to the
emerging field of feminist trauma theory by bringing focus to works
that contest this tendency, offering new understandings of the
significance of the literary testimony and its relationship to
broader society. The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma adopts an
interdisciplinary approach in examining how the literary testimony
of familial transgenerational trauma, with its affective and
relational contagion, illuminates transmissive cycles of trauma
that have consequences across cultures and generations. It offers
bold and insightful readings of works that explore those
consequences in story-Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family
Tragicomic (2006), Helene Cixous's Hyperdream (2009), Marguerite
Duras's The Lover (1992), Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy (1999),
and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013),
concluding that such testimony constitutes a fundamentally feminist
experiment and encounter. The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma
challenges the casting of familial trauma in ahistorical terms, and
affirms both trauma and writing as social forces of political
import.
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