Trauma Narratives and Herstory

Chapter 1 Trauma Narratives and Herstory

Chapter 2 ‘Compulsively Readable and Deeply Moving’: Women’s Middlebrow Trauma Fiction

Chapter 3 Traumatic Dislocations in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban and Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home

Chapter 4 Trauma, Female Identity and the Trope of Splitting in Lessing, Figes, Tennant and Weldon

Chapter 5 Of Grandmothers and Bad Wolves: Fairy-Tale, Myth and Trauma in Eva Figes’s Tales of Innocence and Experience

Chapter 6 Trauma and Survival in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina , or the Power of Alternative Stories

Chapter 7 Overcoming Double Victimisation in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple or the Self-healing Power of Writing Herstory

Chapter 8 ‘Locking the Door’: Self-deception, Silence and Survival in Alice Munro’s ‘Vandals’

Chapter 9 ‘Stories Never Told’: Canonicity, History and Herstory in Dan Jacobson’s Her Story and The God-Fearer

Chapter 10 Herstory Unwritten: Trauma, Memory, Identity and History in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Chapter 11 Depathologising Racial Melancholia in Intergenerational Herstories

Chapter 12 Psychic Resilience in the Fragile Images of A Petal : A Post-Jungian Perspective on Retraumatisation

Chapter 13 Wit(h)nessing Trauma in Keisuke Kinoshita’s Twenty-Four Eyes

Chapter 14 ‘Cartoon Tears’: Diane Noomin’s ‘Baby Talk: A Tale of 3 4 Miscarriages’