Title Trauma and survival in contemporary fiction / Laurie Vickroy.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS374.P7 V53 2002	Available	---

Description	xvi, 266 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.
Contents	Representing trauma : issues, contexts, narrative tools -- Subjugation, nurturance, and legacies of trauma -- The traumatized child as outcast in Duras and Morrison -- "A Loved Version of Your Life" : healing and the provisional self -- Remembering history through the body.
Subject	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- Women authors.
	Women and literature -- West Indies -- History -- 20th century.
	Women and literature.
	West Indies.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States.
	Psychological fiction -- History and criticism.
	Psychological fiction.
	Duras, Marguerite -- Knowledge and learning -- Psychology.
	Duras, Marguerite.
	Psychology.
	African American women in literature.
	African American women in literature.
	West Indian Americans in literature.
	West Indian Americans in literature.
	Psychic trauma in literature.
	Psychic trauma in literature.
	Abused women in literature.
	Abused women in literature.
ISBN	0813921287 paperback alkaline paper
	0813921279 alkaline paper