Reading Trauma Narratives – The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppres…

Reading Trauma NarrativesThe Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression\nAuthor(s): Laurie Vickroy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813937380, 978-0813937380\nSynopsis\nAs part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing on novels by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Chuck Palahniuk, she shows how these writers try to enlarge our understanding of the relationship between individual traumas and the social forces of injustice, oppression, and objectification. Further, she argues, their work provides striking examples of how the devastating effects of trauma?whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial?on individual personality can be depicted in [url] analyzes the ways in which her selected texts engag.