Pain and Narrative Shape: Beyond the Indocility of Trauma in Three Newfoundland Novels
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...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:cc37bfc7896b4e52a86d4b3b56efee20 2023-05-15T17:20:01+02:00 Pain and Narrative Shape: Beyond the Indocility of Trauma in Three Newfoundland Novels María Jesús Hernáez Lerena 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2019-41.2.07 https://doaj.org/article/cc37bfc7896b4e52a86d4b3b56efee20 EN eng Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN) https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php?journal=atlantis&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=596 https://doaj.org/toc/0210-6124 https://doaj.org/toc/1989-6840 doi:10.28914/Atlantis-2019-41.2.07 0210-6124 1989-6840 https://doaj.org/article/cc37bfc7896b4e52a86d4b3b56efee20 Atlantis, Vol 41, Iss 2, Pp 143-160 (2019) canadian literature testimony trauma gothic environmental disasters newfoundland English language PE1-3729 English literature PR1-9680 article 2019 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2019-41.2.07 2022-12-30T21:43:01Z 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 whose very flows and discontinuities are energized by a reconciliation (or lack thereof) with life’s shocking and incomprehensible moments. I build upon Amir Khadem’s rejection of the polarity between narrative and the incurable psychic wound in order to provide textual analyses of a corpus of three contemporary novels set in the context of a historically traumatized regional identity, that of Newfoundland in Canada: The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (2003), by Kenneth J. Harvey, February (2009), by Lisa Moore, and Sweetland (2014), by Michael Crummey. A revision of the role of genres traditionally used to describe historical and personal crises will help us observe how their conventions function within a context of outrage at the global and regional mismanagement of natural resources. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Canada Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 41 2 143 160 |
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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 whose very flows and discontinuities are energized by a reconciliation (or lack thereof) with life’s shocking and incomprehensible moments. I build upon Amir Khadem’s rejection of the polarity between narrative and the incurable psychic wound in order to provide textual analyses of a corpus of three contemporary novels set in the context of a historically traumatized regional identity, that of Newfoundland in Canada: The Town That Forgot How to Breathe (2003), by Kenneth J. Harvey, February (2009), by Lisa Moore, and Sweetland (2014), by Michael Crummey. A revision of the role of genres traditionally used to describe historical and personal crises will help us observe how their conventions function within a context of outrage at the global and regional mismanagement of natural resources. |
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Pain and Narrative Shape: Beyond the Indocility of Trauma in Three Newfoundland Novels |
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