Title Trauma and survival in contemporary fiction / Laurie Vickroy

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002

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MELB	813.509287 V637/T		AVAILABLE

Description xvi, 266 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Representing Trauma: Issues, Contexts, Narrative Tools -- 2. Subjugation, Nurturance, and Legacies of Trauma -- 3. The Traumatized Child as Outcast in Duras and Morrison -- 4. "A Loved Version of Your Life": Healing and the Provisional Self -- 5. Remembering History through the Body Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Duras, Marguerite, 1914-1996 -- Knowledge -- Psychology American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- West Indies -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Psychological fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. African American women in literature. West Indian Americans in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Abused women in literature. LC no. 2002005398 ISBN 0813921287 paperback 0813921279 hardback

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