Father–daughter incest in twentieth-century american literature: the complex trauma of the wound and the voiceless
Auteur :
Grogan, Christine
Éditeur :
Associated University Presses
ISBN :
9781611479690
Date de publication :
6 nov. 2018
Dimensions :
21,9 x 15,3 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
318 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This interdisciplinary study rereads father-daughter incest narratives of the last hundred years to argue for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences.