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:
Creators:
Andermahr, S.
Editors:
Andermahr, S. and Pellicer-Ortin, S.
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
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
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