Title Father-daughter incest in twentieth-century American literature : the complex trauma of the wound and the voiceless / Christine Grogan

Published Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 193 pages) Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: "Flinching at the Word Father"; Chapter Two: "Naw You Ain't No Man"; Chapter Three: Morrison Responds to the Psychological Community in The Bluest Eye; Chapter Four: "White Trash" Trauma in Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina; Chapter Five: The Failure of Bearing Witness; Chapter Six: Convicting the Victim; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author Summary This interdisciplinary study rereads father-daughter incest narratives of the last hundred years to argue for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences. Contributing to the work of the second-wave of trauma theory, this book responds in part to the psychological community, which failed to include complex PTSD in the DSM-5 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Incest in literature. Fathers and daughters in literature. Mothers in literature. Parricide in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Post-traumatic stress disorder in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Psychic trauma in literature Post-traumatic stress disorder in literature Parricide in literature Mothers in literature Fathers and daughters in literature American literature Incest in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021678149 ISBN 9781611479683 1611479681

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