Andermahr, S. (2013) 'Compulsively readable and deeply moving': women’s middlebrow trauma fiction. In: Andermahr, S. and Pellicer-Ortin, S. (eds.) Trauma Narratives and Herstory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 13-29.
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| Abstract: | This chapter examines the representation of trauma, specifically the impact of the loss of children on mothers and their families, in contemporary women's middlebrow fiction. Examining three examples of the genre, it problematizes the dominant trauma aesthetic with its emphasis on aporia, difficulty and non-communicability, and argues that women's trauma narratives offer an alternative mode of working through trauma, one which privileges concordance over discordance, and seeks a more restitutive reading experience than is available in the canonical trauma novel. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Trauma studies, women's trauma narratives, feminism, herstory, autobiography, comics, film |
| Subjects: |
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN56 Themes and subjects in literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR111 Women authors P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR821 Prose fiction. The novel |
| Creators: | Andermahr, Sonya |
| Editors: | Andermahr, Sonya and Pellicer-Ortin, Silvia |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Page Range: | pp. 13-29 |
| Title of Book: | Trauma Narratives and Herstory |
| Place of Publication: | Basingstoke |
| Number of Pages: | 228 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9781137268341 |
| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/5921 |
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