Suffering in Anglophone Literatures engages with postclassical Trauma Studies and opens the traumatic envelope to embrace concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The first section explores insomnia in Shakespeare, testimonial suffering in Richardson, nostalgia in Clare, work as a form of suffering in Tennyson and pleasurable suffering in Trollope. The second section deals with suffering as expressed in blues (by August Wilson), intergenerational healing (by Rosanna Deerchild), systemic pain in war fiction (from World War One to the Vietnam War), personal and historical nostalgia (by John Banville) and literary non-commitment to suffering (by Joyce, and Philip Kerr). The final section turns to more recent literary texts ranging from the poetry of Derek Mahon, Philip Metres and Solmaz Sharif to novels on intergenerational trauma (by Kate Morton), the sexual abuse of women (by Miriam Toews) and growing up in poverty (by Douglas Stuart).
This book engages with postclassical Trauma Studies in order to widen the scope of discussion about trauma to concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The authors question literatures manifold relationship to trauma is undertaken in a conscientious dialogue with ethics and politics.
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This book engages with postclassical Trauma Studies in order to widen the scope of discussion about trauma to concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The authors question literatures manifold relationship to trauma is undertaken in a conscientious dialogue with ethics and politics.
Introduction, Martina Domines and Charles I. Armstrong
Part One: From the Early Modern Period to the Long Nineteenth Century Human
Suffering before the Birth of Trauma
Chapter One: Sleeplessness and Suffering in Shakespeare, Lisa Hopkins
Chapter Two: Negotiations of Suffering in Samuel Richardsons Pamela, Tijana
Matovi
Chapter Three: John Clare's Poetics of Suffering: Autobiographical Writings
as the Embodiment of Romantic Nostalgia, Martina Domines
Chapter Four: Work as Toil in Tennysons The Lotos-Eaters, Borislav
Kneevi
Chapter Five: The Pleasurable Suffering of Tolerance in Anthony Trollopes
He Knew He Was Right, Nina Engelhardt
Part Two: Twentieth Century Literary Landscapes of Suffering
Chapter Six: Iron Nails Ran In: Modernism, Suffering and Humour in James
Joyces Ulysses, Dominik Wallerius
Chapter Seven: Dark Material and Radical Healing in August Wilsons Ma
Raineys Black Bottom, Jovana Pavievi
Chapter Eight: Dealing with Suffering, Engaging with the Past: Problematic
Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Philip Kerr's A Quiet Flame, Christine
Berberich
Chapter Nine: Our struggling bodies: Writing Pain and Subjection in 20th
Century U.S. War Writing, Julien Brugeron
Chapter Ten: Destruam et ędificabo: Personal and Historical Suffering
within the Nostalgic Redemptive Narrative in John Banvilles The Untouchable,
Jennifer Cowe
Part Three: Twenty-first Century Kaleidoscopes of Trauma
Chapter Eleven: Derek Mahons Biography, Poetry, and Trauma, Charles I.
Armstrong
Chapter Twelve: A Longing for Something Other, Aging Female Selves
Suffering, Writing and Historicizing Trauma in Kate Mortons The Forgotten
Garden, Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Chapter Thirteen: Building an Archive of Suffering in Philip Metres Sand
Opera and Solmaz Sharifs Look, Henrik Torjusen
Chapter Fourteen: We are all victims? Rethinking Vulnerability and
Victimization in Literary Representations of Womens Suffering in Miriam
Toews Women Talking, Miriam Wallraven and Ksenija Kondali
Chapter Fifteen: A Crack in Her/Bone Memory: Recovering the Mothers Story
in Rosanna Deerchilds Calling Down the Sky, Cristina Stanciu
Chapter Sixteen: Suffering and Trauma: Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain as a
Return to Realism, Zekiye Antakyalolu
About the Contributors
Martina Domines is associate professor in the English Department at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Charles I. Armstrong is professor of English literature at the University of Agder, Norway.
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