{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-transgenerational-trauma-paperback","title":"The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMeera Atkinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence, violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing racial and religious conflict. While traumas involving large-scale or historical violence are widely represented in trauma theory, familial trauma is still largely considered a private matter, associated with personal failure. This book contributes to the emerging field of feminist trauma theory by bringing focus to works that contest this tendency, offering new understandings of the significance of the literary testimony and its relationship to broader society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e adopts an interdisciplinary approach in examining how the literary testimony of familial transgenerational trauma, with its affective and relational contagion, illuminates transmissive cycles of trauma that have consequences across cultures and generations. It offers bold and insightful readings of works that explore those consequences in story-Alison Bechdel's \u003ci\u003eFun Home: A Family Tragicomic\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), Hélène Cixous's \u003ci\u003eHyperdream\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), Marguerite Duras's \u003ci\u003eThe Lover \u003c\/i\u003e(1992), Pat Barker's \u003ci\u003eRegeneration Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and Alexis Wright's \u003ci\u003eCarpentaria\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and \u003ci\u003eThe Swan Book\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), concluding that such testimony constitutes a fundamentally feminist experiment and encounter. \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the casting of familial trauma in ahistorical terms, and affirms both trauma and writing as social forces of political import.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeera Atkinson\u003c\/b\u003e teaches creative writing at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is co-editor, with Michael Richardson, of \u003ci\u003eTraumatic Affect\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and is a widely published literary writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703505056051,"sku":"9781501349119","price":100.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dUdVNkpZL0VRMmRoT3hwNFhTZ25KQT09.webp?v=1763326760","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-poetics-of-transgenerational-trauma-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}