Contemporary Trauma Narratives

Taylor & Francis

Contemporary Trauma NarrativesLiminality and the Ethics of Form\nAuthor(s): Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138024496, 978-1138024496\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or \""liminal\"" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers.\n\nBuilding on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in w.