A01=Laura Di Prete
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American literary analysis
Author_Laura Di Prete
Body Artist
Body Time
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Confers
contemporary
Corporeal Fantasies
corporeality in trauma narratives
crises
culture
Defensive Strategy
dorothy
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experience
Foreign Bodies
Functional Ego
Hold
Lauren's Eyes
Lauren's Performance
lillo
Masochistic Fantasy
memories
memory studies
narrative embodiment
Paper Clip
psychoanalytic criticism
Real Beatings
Rey's Death
Sudden Materialization
Tancred
temporality
trauma theory
traumatic
Traumatic Crisis
Traumatic Latency
Traumatic Memories
Traumatic Reenactment
Traumatic Temporality
Unstable
Violate
visual culture research
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415975230
- Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Foreign Bodies investigates the relation between the notion of trauma and possible forms of representation within the necessary constraints that traumatic experience itself imposes. While many influential trauma theorists have focused on the notion of textual voice in their search for appropriate, effective, and adequate representational modes, the book argues that the act of narrating trauma cannot exclude corporeality as one of the central figures of this telling. One of the distinctive features of this book is, therefore, the attempt at tracing the indissoluble bond--detected in the work of a number of contemporary artists such as Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Dorothy Allison, and photographer Sally Mann--between voice and body, trauma and corporeality. In so doing, the book proposes a new direction within trauma studies, one that explicitly views the body as a medium of self-expression and, crucially, textual working through. By conceptually reading these narratives against the Freudian metaphor for traumatic memory that of a quasi-palpable foreign body the author attempts to increase or modify current knowledge on the relationship between expressive culture and trauma.
