Intersectional Trauma In American Women Writers Incest Novels From The 1990s

Author : Marinella Rodi-Risberg
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ISBN 13 : 9783030966201
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s written by Marinella Rodi-Risberg and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter incest from the 1990s. It examines how incest can be connected to wider past and present structural oppression and institutional abuse, and what fiction looks like that testifies against and references a historical background of slavery, poverty, settler colonialism, annexation, and immigration. Investigating the means of resistance used against attempts at silencing and denial in these texts, the book also shows how contemporary women's novels can propose social change. Overall, this study uniquely argues that the individual trauma of incest in these texts must be understood in relation to histories of and present collective wounding against marginalized communities. By sitting at the intersections between trauma theory and US third world feminism, it allows for theory to meet literary activism. Marinella Rodi-Risberg is an affiliated researcher at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has published on representations of trauma in journals and chapters, including in Trauma and Literature (2018), and is co-editor of Transnational Crime Fiction: Mobility, Borders, and Detection (2020).

Author : Marinella Rodi-Risberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030966194
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s written by Marinella Rodi-Risberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter incest from the 1990s. It examines how incest can be connected to wider past and present structural oppression and institutional abuse, and what fiction looks like that testifies against and references a historical background of slavery, poverty, settler colonialism, annexation, and immigration. Investigating the means of resistance used against attempts at silencing and denial in these texts, the book also shows how contemporary women’s novels can propose social change. Overall, this study uniquely argues that the individual trauma of incest in these texts must be understood in relation to histories of and present collective wounding against marginalized communities. By sitting at the intersections between trauma theory and US third world feminism, it allows for theory to meet literary activism.

Author : Maria Joaquina Villaseñor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040019013
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing written by Maria Joaquina Villaseñor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing provides an in‐depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study of a variety of key Latinx life writers, genres, and thematic concerns. This volume includes chapters on fundamental genres of Latinx life writing including memoir, autobiography, oral history, testimonio, comics and graphic texts, poetry of protest, and theatre to more fully depict the breadth, dynamism, and vibrancy of Latinx life writing. Latinx people continuously engaged in the empowering act of telling their stories and narrating their lives, producing writing that at various times and in various ways expressed their joy, expressed their rage and anguish, and ultimately, asserted their subjectivity all the while indelibly contributing to the American literary landscape.

Author : J. Roger Kurtz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316821277
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Literature written by J. Roger Kurtz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals, cultures, and nations. This book traces how trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism in recent decades. It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of literary trauma theory, recording the evolution of the concept of trauma in relation to literary studies. In twenty-one essays, covering the origins, development, and applications of trauma in literary studies, Trauma and Literature addresses the relevance and impact this concept has in the field.

Author : Catherine J. Nash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317072677
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Methods and Methodologies written by Catherine J. Nash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Methods and Methodologies provides the first systematic consideration of the implications of a queer perspective in the pursuit of social scientific research. This volume grapples with key contemporary questions regarding the methodological implications for social science research undertaken from diverse queer perspectives, and explores the limitations and potentials of queer engagements with social science research techniques and methodologies. With contributors based in the UK, USA, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand and Australia, this truly international volume will appeal to anyone pursuing research at the intersections between social scientific research and queer perspectives, as well as those engaging with methodological considerations in social science research more broadly.

Author : Annamarie Jagose
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814742343
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Theory written by Annamarie Jagose and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.

Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307401944
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middlesex written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion. Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world.

Author : Mel Y. Chen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352729
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animacies written by Mel Y. Chen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848880448
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil. Women. The Feminine. The relationships that bring together these three ideas form the basis for the papers gathered together in this volume. By asking how, why, when, and to what purpose these three terms are often linked serves as the starting point of interrogation for each of the authors here considered.

Author : Anne Mcclintock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135209103
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book Imperial Leather written by Anne Mcclintock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.