Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing (Paperback)

~ (Author) "Is anyone imagining as he reads me, that I'm portraying myself?" Colette asks in Break of Day..." (more)
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Henke, a professor of literary studies and a Joyce scholar (James Joyce and the Politics of Desire, Routledge, 1990), is a psychoanalytic critic with an interest in autobiographical testimony and scriptotherapy. In this study, she examines the case histories of six 20th-century women authors who underwent physical and psychological traumas and later wrote about their experiences as a therapeutic strategy. Among Henke's examples of "narrative recovery" are the life-writings of Colette (marital brutality), Hilda Doolittle (death and failed pregnancy), Anais Nin (father-daughter incest), Janet Frame (mental breakdown), Audre Lorde (social injustice and life-threatening illness), and Sylvia Fraser (childhood sexual abuse). With a third of the book devoted to notes and works consulted, its audience is clearly the informed reader with some knowledge of psychoanalysis, literary theory, and feminist criticism. Recommended for academic libraries.?Carol Ann McAllister, Coll. of William & Mary Lib., Williamsburg, VA
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Henke has given us a richly detailed map. -- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (May 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312230982
• ISBN-13: 978-0312230982
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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