1st Edition
Foreign Bodies Trauma, Corporeality, and Textuality in Contemporary American Culture
By Laura Di Prete
Copyright 2006
156 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
156 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
156 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Foreign Bodies investigates the relation between the notion of trauma and possible forms of representation within the necessary constraints that traumatic experience itself imposes. While many influential trauma theorists have focused on the notion of textual voice in their search for appropriate, effective, and adequate representational modes, the book argues that the act of narrating trauma... Read more
Acknowledgements Chapter One The Form of Absence: Writing Trauma, Writing the Body Chapter Two The Wound that Wounds: Trauma, Subjectivity, and Vision in the Photography of Sally Mann Chapter Three Foreign Bodies: Traumatic Latency and Corporeality in Beloved Chapter Four Don DeLillo's The Body Artist : Performing the Body, Narrating Trauma Chapter Five Corporeal Fantasies: Trauma and the Body in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Laura Di Prete
