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" Literary trauma : "
Deborah M. Horvitz
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BL
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702627
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b524816
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| Main Entry
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Horvitz, Deborah M.,1951-
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Literary trauma : : sadism, memory, and sexual violence in American women's fiction /\ Deborah M. Horvitz
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, [2000]
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, ©2000
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
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169 pages ;; 24 cm
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0791447111
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: 079144712X
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: 9780791447116
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: 9780791447123
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : bearing witness -- Reading the unconscious in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Freud and feminism in Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- Hysteria and trauma in Pauline Hopkin's Of one blood; or, the hidden self -- Postmodern realism, truth and lies in Joyce Carol Oates's What I lived for -- Intertextuality and poststructural realism in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper" -- Conclusion : words finally spoken
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"This book examines portrayals of political and psychological trauma, particularly sexual trauma, in the work of seven American women writers. Concentrating on novels by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, Gayl Jones, Leslie Marmon Silko, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret Atwood, Harvitz investigates whether memories of violent and oppressive trauma can be preserved, even transformed into art, without reproducing that violence
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The book encompasses a wide range of personal and political traumas, including domestic abuse, incest, rape, imprisonment, and slavery, and argues that an analysis of sadomasochistic violence is our best protection against cyclical, intergenerational violence, a particularly timely and important subject as we think about how to stop "hate" crimes and other forms of political and psychic oppression."--Jacket
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American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism
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Memory in literature
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Psychic trauma in literature
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Psychoanalysis and literature-- United States
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Psychological fiction, American-- History and criticism
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Sadism in literature
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Sex crimes in literature
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Violence in literature
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Women and literature-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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813.009/353
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PS374.W6H68 2000
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