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Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted
Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and
communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences
and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory,
memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and
post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting
presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the
psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved
in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives
focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term:
biographies and autobiographies that deal with traumatic
experiences, autobiographically inspired fictions on loss and
trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions
between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as
diverse as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Vikram Seth's Two Lives,
deportation narratives of Baltic women, Christa Wolf's
Kindheitsmuster, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Ene Mihkelson's
Ahasveeruse uni, the contributors add significantly to current
debates on life writing, trauma, and memory; the contested notion
of "cultural trauma"; and the transferability of
clinical-psychological notions to the study of literature and
culture.
Rita Dove is one of the premier American poets. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and US poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, Dove appeals to a broad public by means of readings, stage productions, and the media. Crossing Color: Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, and Drama represents the first monographic investigation of this major African American author's writing. The book examines the linguistic devices through which Rita Dove shapes her transcultural spaces and places, understood as a fusion of cultural backgrounds that provide 'a home in art'. Crossing Color explores not only the vast range of Dove's thematic and formal means, but also her interest in crossing boundaries, be they geographical, racial, religious, or marked by class, gender or genre.
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