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Father-daughter incest in twentieth-century American literature : the complex trauma of the wound and the voiceless
- Title
- Father-daughter incest in twentieth-century American literature : the complex trauma of the wound and the voiceless / Christine Grogan.
- Author
- Grogan, Christine
- Publication
- Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, [2016]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-12075 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 193 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the wound and the voiceless -- 1. "Flinching at the word father": trauma politics in Fitzgerald's Tender is the night; The limits of psychiatry; The gender politics of trauma; Fitzgerald's ambivalence -- 2. "Naw you ain't no man": Ellison's Invisible man and the woman question revisited; Rereading Trueblood's tale; Invisible women -- 3. Morrison responds to the psychological community in The bluest eye; Worse for the experience; Pecola's voice; Reshaping the Trueblood mold -- 4. "White trash" trauma in Allison's Bastard out of Carolina; Putting into print father-daughter incest; Bearing witness: the role of the mother; Bone's rape; From victim to survivor; Autobiographical traces: "not biography and yet not lies" -- 5. The failure of bearing witness: the politics of truth telling and Kathryn Harrison's The kiss: a memoir; The incestuous father and collusive mother; An unavoidable book -- 6. Convicting the victim: Stacey Lannert's Redemption and the "little-known psychological problem" of child-abuse parricide; Parricide; The facts; Complex PTSD; Conclusion: trauma in the twenty-first century.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-12075
- ISBN
- 9781611479676 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1611479673 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2016033765
- OCLC
- 964661123
- Author
- Grogan, Christine, author.
- Title
- Father-daughter incest in twentieth-century American literature : the complex trauma of the wound and the voiceless / Christine Grogan.
- Publisher
- Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-12075