Women writing trauma in the global South a study of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy / Annemarie Pabel.
| Author/creator | Pabel, Annemarie, 1988- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in comparative literature ; 1 |
| Contents | Introduction: Concepts and contexts of psychological wounding. Canonical cultural trauma theory and emerging perspectives -- The case for a reconceptualization of trauma -- Wound narratives from the global South -- Aminatta Forna. Fictional representations of traumatic disintegration in The memory of love -- Prolonged and insidious trauma in The devil that danced on the water -- Narrative critique of the PTSD category in Happiness -- Narrative negotiations of a context-specific trauma model -- Complicated witnessing in The devil that danced on the water -- Unempathic gazing and professional witnessing in Happiness -- Post-traumatic resilience in Happiness -- Isabel Allende. Writing during trauma in Paula -- Fictional representations of childhood trauma in Portrait in sepia -- Inscriptions of trauma in landscape: exile and mental dislocation -- Resurfacing wounds in storytelling -- Epistolary narration in articulating bereavement -- Magical realist elements in representing the unspeakable -- Photography as a testimonial practice in Portrait in sepia -- Narrating 'belonging' in My invented country -- Anuradha Roy. Fictional representations of prolonged childhood violence -- Topographic and architectural manifestations of traumatic unhomeliness in An atlas of impossible longing -- Familial disintegration and unhomeliness -- Self-awareness and transgression of forms in articulating trauma -- Epistolary elements and narrative authority -- Conclusion: Connecting trauma narratives in the global South. Inscriptions of complex wounds -- Towards conceptual inclusivity. |
| Abstract | Introduction: Concepts and contexts of psychological wounding. Canonical cultural trauma theory and emerging perspectives -- The case for a reconceptualization of trauma -- Wound narratives from the global South -- Aminatta Forna. Fictional representations of traumatic disintegration in The memory of love -- Prolonged and insidious trauma in The devil that danced on the water -- Narrative critique of the PTSD category in Happiness -- Narrative negotiations of a context-specific trauma model -- Complicated witnessing in The devil that danced on the water -- Unempathic gazing and professional witnessing in Happiness -- Post-traumatic resilience in Happiness -- Isabel Allende. Writing during trauma in Paula -- Fictional representations of childhood trauma in Portrait in sepia -- Inscriptions of trauma in landscape: exile and mental dislocation -- Resurfacing wounds in storytelling -- Epistolary narration in articulating bereavement -- Magical realist elements in representing the unspeakable -- Photography as a testimonial practice in Portrait in sepia -- Narrating 'belonging' in My invented country -- Anuradha Roy. Fictional representations of prolonged childhood violence -- Topographic and architectural manifestations of traumatic unhomeliness in An atlas of impossible longing -- Familial disintegration and unhomeliness -- Self-awareness and transgression of forms in articulating trauma -- Epistolary elements and narrative authority -- Conclusion: Connecting trauma narratives in the global South. Inscriptions of complex wounds -- Towards conceptual inclusivity. Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pabel, Annemarie, 1988- Women writing trauma in the global South New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032211176 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022009956 |
| ISBN | 9781000638912 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003266822 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |