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Father-daughter incest in twentieth-century American literature : the complex trauma of the wound and the voiceless / Christine Grogan.
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Grogan, Christine
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English
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Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2016]
©2016
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x, 193 pages ; 24 cm
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PS169.I5 G76 2016
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Incest in literature
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Child sexual abuse in literature
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Fathers and daughters in literature
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Post-traumatic stress disorder in literature
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American literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Summary note
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The wound and the voiceless
"Flinching at the word Father": trauma politics in Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
"Naw you ain't no man": Ellison's Invisible Man and the woman question revisited
Morrison responds to the psychological community in The Bluest Eye
"White trash" trauma in Allison's Bastard out of Carolina
The failure of bearing witness: the politcs of truth telling and Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss: a Memoir
Convicting the victim: Stacey Lannert's Redemption and the "little-known psychological problem" of child-abuse patricide
Conclusion: Trauma in the twenty-first century.
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ISBN
9781611479676 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1611479673 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016033765
OCLC
960940525
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