TY - BOOK ID - 77899310 TI - Literary trauma : sadism, memory, and sexual violence in American women's fiction PY - 2000 SN - 0585426449 9780585426440 0791447111 9780791447116 079144712X 9780791447123 0791491897 PB - Albany (N.Y.) : State university of New York press, DB - UniCat KW - American fiction KW - Psychological fiction, American KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Women and literature KW - Psychic trauma in literature. KW - Sex crimes in literature. KW - Violence in literature. KW - Sadism in literature. KW - Memory in literature. KW - Psychic trauma in literature KW - Sex crimes in literature KW - Violence in literature KW - Sadism in literature KW - Memory in literature KW - American Literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Literature KW - Literature and psychoanalysis KW - Psychoanalytic literary criticism KW - American psychological fiction KW - American literature KW - Memory as a theme in literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899310 AB - "This book examines portrayals of political and psychological trauma, particularly sexual trauma, in the work of seven American women writers. Concentrating on novels by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, Gayl Jones, Leslie Marmon Silko, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret Atwood, Harvitz investigates whether memories of violent and oppressive trauma can be preserved, even transformed into art, without reproducing that violence. The book encompasses a wide range of personal and political traumas, including domestic abuse, incest, rape, imprisonment, and slavery, and argues that an analysis of sadomasochistic violence is our best protection against cyclical, intergenerational violence, a particularly timely and important subject as we think about how to stop "hate" crimes and other forms of political and psychic oppression."--Jacket. ER -