Intersectional trauma in American women writers' incest novels from the 1990s / Marinella Rodi-Risberg.
Rodi-Risberg, Marinella, author.
2022
PS366.P89 R63 2022
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Title
Intersectional trauma in American women writers' incest novels from the 1990s / Marinella Rodi-Risberg.
Author
Rodi-Risberg, Marinella, author.
ISBN
9783030966195 (electronic bk.)
3030966194 (electronic bk.)
9783030966188
3030966186
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96619-5
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-96619-5 doi
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PS366.P89 R63 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.54093561
Summary
This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter incest from the 1990s. It examines how incest can be connected to wider past and present structural oppression and institutional abuse, and what fiction looks like that testifies against and references a historical background of slavery, poverty, settler colonialism, annexation, and immigration. Investigating the means of resistance used against attempts at silencing and denial in these texts, the book also shows how contemporary womens novels can propose social change. Overall, this study uniquely argues that the individual trauma of incest in these texts must be understood in relation to histories of and present collective wounding against marginalized communities. By sitting at the intersections between trauma theory and US third world feminism, it allows for theory to meet literary activism. Marinella Rodi-Risberg is an affiliated researcher at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. She has published on representations of trauma in journals and chapters, including in Trauma and Literature (2018), and is co-editor of Transnational Crime Fiction: Mobility, Borders, and Detection (2020).
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Contextualizing the Wound and the Political Literary Voice in the Theory of Trauma
Chapter 2: Trauma, Temporality, and Testimony: The Enslaved Daughters Body in Carolivia Herrons Thereafter Johnnie
Chapter 3: Trauma, "Trash," and Memory in Dorothy Allisons Bastard out of Carolina
Chapter 4: Betty Louise Bells Faces in the Moon: Trauma, Settler Colonialism, and Storytelling
Chapter 5: Transnational Trauma and Testimonio in Denise Chavezs Face of an Angel
Chapter 6: Trauma, Survival, and Intertextuality in Patricia Chaos Monkey King
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Trauma and Resistance in a Literary Third Voice at the Intersections.

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