Literary trauma : sadism, memory, and sexual violence in American women's fiction /
Horvitz, Deborah M., 1951-
Literary trauma : sadism, memory, and sexual violence in American women's fiction / Deborah M. Horvitz. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000. - 1 online resource (169 pages) - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture . - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index.
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.
"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. 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
English.
0585426449 9780585426440 0791447111 9780791447116 079144712X 9780791447123
000021258025 AU
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature--United States.
Women and literature--United States.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Sex crimes in literature.
Violence in literature.
Sadism in literature.
Memory in literature.
Psychanalyse et littérature--États-Unis.
Femmes et littérature--États-Unis.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Violence sexuelle dans la littérature.
Violence dans la littérature.
Sadisme dans la littérature.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American fiction--Women authors
Memory in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
Psychological fiction, American
Sadism in literature
Sex crimes in literature
Violence in literature
Women and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS374.W6 / H68 2000eb
813.009/353
Literary trauma : sadism, memory, and sexual violence in American women's fiction / Deborah M. Horvitz. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000. - 1 online resource (169 pages) - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture . - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index.
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.
"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. 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
English.
0585426449 9780585426440 0791447111 9780791447116 079144712X 9780791447123
000021258025 AU
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature--United States.
Women and literature--United States.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Sex crimes in literature.
Violence in literature.
Sadism in literature.
Memory in literature.
Psychanalyse et littérature--États-Unis.
Femmes et littérature--États-Unis.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Violence sexuelle dans la littérature.
Violence dans la littérature.
Sadisme dans la littérature.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American fiction--Women authors
Memory in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
Psychological fiction, American
Sadism in literature
Sex crimes in literature
Violence in literature
Women and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS374.W6 / H68 2000eb
813.009/353