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Dec 19, 2018 · The field of trauma studies continues to develop and adapt the foundational poststructural approach as well as incorporate new perspectives from postcolonialism, feminist theory, ethnic studies, and ecocriticism in scholarship that examines trauma’s significance in literature and society.
A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals, cultures, and nations.
The field of trauma studies in literary criticism gained significant attention in 1996 with the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History and Kali Tal’s Worlds of Hurt Reading the Literatures of Trauma.1 Early...
Jan 1, 2018 · It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of literary trauma theory, recording the evolution of the concept of trauma in relation to literary studies.
This book traces how trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism in recent decades. It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of literary trauma theory, recording the evolution of the concept of trauma in relation to literary studies.
Jan 30, 2018 · This chapter examines the theoretical foundations and developments in trauma studies, specifically exploring how Freud's psychoanalytic theory of trauma has influenced the concept of trauma in literary criticism.
This essay examines the dominant psychology model of trauma in literary criticism, especially intergenerational trauma theory, introducing alternative approaches for analysis of trauma in literature, including place theory. The essay analyzes the function of the traumatized protagonist in fiction and discusses the influence of place in
