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The Certainty Of Spinning, Jennifer Sinor
The Certainty Of Spinning, Jennifer Sinor
English Faculty Publications
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American Again In My Lai, Charles Waugh
American Again In My Lai, Charles Waugh
English Faculty Publications
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Running Through The Dark, Jennifer Sinor
Running Through The Dark, Jennifer Sinor
English Faculty Publications
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Confluences, Jennifer Sinor
Review Of While They Slept By Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Sinor
Review Of While They Slept By Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Sinor
English Faculty Publications
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Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox
Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
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Review Of Approaching Emily Dickinson: Critical Currents And Crosscurrents Since1960, Paul Crumbley, Fred D. White
Review Of Approaching Emily Dickinson: Critical Currents And Crosscurrents Since1960, Paul Crumbley, Fred D. White
English Faculty Publications
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'This Text Deletes Itself’: Traumatic Memory And Space-Time In Zoe Wicomb’S David’S Story, Shane Graham
'This Text Deletes Itself’: Traumatic Memory And Space-Time In Zoe Wicomb’S David’S Story, Shane Graham
English Faculty Publications
The group of cultural and literary theorists whom I would loosely categorize as practitioners of “trauma theory”–including, most notably, Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub, and Dominick LaCapra–share several assumptions. Their ideas all derive to a large extent from Freudian conceptions of memory and trauma, and they all emphasize the temporal aspects of psychic trauma: Caruth, for instance, describes the traumatic encounter as “a break in the mind’s experience of time” (61). Implicit in this conception of trauma, as well, is the assumption that trauma is an individual and private phenomenon. And they all suggest, moreover, that trauma manifests itself …