• Trauma and the Representation of the Unsayable in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

    Author(s):
    Katina Rogers (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Subject(s):
    American literature, French literature, Latin American literature
    Item Type:
    Dissertation
    Institution:
    University of Colorado, Boulder
    Tag(s):
    trauma, experimentation, Literary theory
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6CG6N
    Abstract:
    This dissertation explores the ways in which several fiction writers from France, the U.S., and Latin America experiment with the form of their works in writing about traumatic experience, as they navigate the tension between a propulsion toward expression and toward silence. Some of these traumas are vast, as in Edmond Jabès’ Le livre des questions (1963-1973), which addresses not only the Holocaust, but also questions of exile and identity. Others are on a smaller scale, such as Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir (1986), Julio Cortázar's Los autonautas de la cosmopista (1983), and Macedonio Fernández’s Museo de la Novela de la Eterna (1967, posthumous); in each of these works, the author grapples with the loss and subsequent mourning of a spouse. Finally, Gérard Gavarry’s Hop là! un deux trois (2001) and Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) both address the difficulties of responding to more ambiguous, insidious forms of trauma perpetrated by an entire society.
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