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As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing on novels by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Chuck Palahniuk, she shows how these writers try to enlarge our understanding of the relationship between individual traumas and the social forces of injustice, oppression, and objectification. Further, she argues, their work provides striking examples of how the devastating effects of trauma?whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial?on individual personality can be depicted in narrative.Vickroy analyzes the ways in which her selected texts engage readers both cognitively and ethically to reveal their own roles in systems of power and how they internalize the ideologies of those systems.

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"“Reading Trauma Narratives is a perceptive, timely, and challenging work."""" —J. Brooks Bouson, Loyola University of Chicago"

In Reading Trauma Narratives, Laurie Vickroy successfully brings together different disciplinary perspectives, including contemporary psychological, cognitive, narrative, and ethical scholarship. This is a perceptive, timely, and challenging work and a welcome addition to the study of trauma, trauma literature, and the representation of the traumatized character in literature.--J. Brooks Bouson, Loyola University of Chicago, author of Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women's Writings

“Reading Trauma Narratives is a perceptive, timely, and challenging work."""" —J. Brooks Bouson, Loyola University of Chicago

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Laurie Vickroy, Professor of English at Bradley University, USA is author of Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction (Virginia).

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