Pain and Narrative Shape: Beyond the Indocility of Trauma in Three Newfoundland Novels

• Main Author: Hernáez Lerena, María Jesús
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Canadian literature; testimony; trauma; gothic; environmental disasters; Newfoundland; literatura canadiense; testimonio; gótico; desastres medioambientales; Terranova; Allá; Canada; Isla de Terranova
• Online Access: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=7235956

This article looks at trauma beyond the fixation on the limits of narrative as expressed in the mainstream theory of trauma in the 1990s, in the work of Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, among others. Its purpose is to achieve an appreciation of narrative as a navigable textual itinerary...