TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horvitz,Deborah M.
TI  - Literary trauma: sadism, memory, and sexual violence in American women's fiction 
T2  - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
SN  - 0585426449
AV  - PS374.W6 H68 2000eb
U1  - 813.009/353 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Psychological fiction, American
KW  - Psychoanalysis and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Psychic trauma in literature
KW  - Sex crimes in literature
KW  - Violence in literature
KW  - Sadism in literature
KW  - Memory in literature
KW  - Psychanalyse et littérature
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Femmes et littérature
KW  - Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature
KW  - Violence sexuelle dans la littérature
KW  - Violence dans la littérature
KW  - Sadisme dans la littérature
KW  - Mémoire dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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