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245 10 a| Demanding witnessh| [electronic resource] :b| women and the trauma of homecoming in Greek tragedy /c| Erika L. Weiberg.;

260 a| New York, NY :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2024];

300 a| x, 225 pages ;c| 25 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and indexes.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Women of Trachis, and Euripides' Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, Erika L. Weiberg examines how and why female characters' expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and suppressed by other characters and sometimes by the plot of the play itself. Tragic representations of female noncombatants' trauma after war expose the ripple effects of violence that wars create, even for individuals and communities distant from the fighting. At the same time, these characters' expressions of trauma also create a conflict of witnessing for other characters and the audience. By shifting focus to the returning hero's wife and the women he enslaves, Weiberg calls attention to the detrimental effects of structural and chronic forms of trauma in addition to trauma caused by discrete, catastrophic events. Weiberg argues that recognizing women's trauma in these tragedies requires questioning how Greek society was organized through hierarchies that privilege the hero's story of trauma and recovery to the exclusion of other types of stories and experiences"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Demanding witness women and the trauma of homecoming in Greek tragedy / Erika L. Weiberg.

Author/creator	Weiberg, Erika L.
Other author	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Description	x, 225 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects	Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism. Women in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. War--Psychological aspects.

Abstract	"Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Women of Trachis, and Euripides' Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, Erika L. Weiberg examines how and why female characters' expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and suppressed by other characters and sometimes by the plot of the play itself. Tragic representations of female noncombatants' trauma after war expose the ripple effects of violence that wars create, even for individuals and communities distant from the fighting. At the same time, these characters' expressions of trauma also create a conflict of witnessing for other characters and the audience. By shifting focus to the returning hero's wife and the women he enslaves, Weiberg calls attention to the detrimental effects of structural and chronic forms of trauma in addition to trauma caused by discrete, catastrophic events. Weiberg argues that recognizing women's trauma in these tragedies requires questioning how Greek society was organized through hierarchies that privilege the hero's story of trauma and recovery to the exclusion of other types of stories and experiences"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and indexes.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2023033957
ISBN	9780197747322 (hardback)
ISBN	(epub)

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