Charlot Francais: Charlie Chaplin, The First World War, And The Construction Of A National Hero,
2010
Oberlin College
Charlot Francais: Charlie Chaplin, The First World War, And The Construction Of A National Hero, Libby Murphy
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
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Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction,
2010
CUNY Graduate Center
Trauma And The Representation Of The Unsayable In Late Twentieth-Century Fiction, Katina Rogers
Publications and Research
This dissertation explores the ways in which several fiction writers from France, the U.S., and Latin America experiment with the form of their works in writing about traumatic experience, as they navigate the tension between a propulsion toward expression and toward silence. Some of these traumas are vast, as in Edmond Jabès’ Le livre des questions (1963-1973), which addresses not only the Holocaust, but also questions of exile and identity. Others are on a smaller scale, such as Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir (1986), Julio Cortázar's Los autonautas de la cosmopista (1983), and Macedonio Fernández’s Museo de la Novela de …
