Naslov (srp)

Novels by Kathy Acker, Sylvia Plath, and Toni Morrison in the context of trauma studies: doctoral dissertation

Autor

Stevanović, Natalija, 1992-

Doprinosi

Kocić Stanković, Ana, 1982-
Ignjatović, Sanja, 1986-
Vukotić, Aleksandra, 1984-

Opis (srp)

The doctoral thesis titled Novels by Kathy Acker, Sylvia Plath, and Toni Morrison in the Context of Trauma Studies is focused on analyzing narrative representation of trauma in Blood and Guts in High School, The Bell Jar, and Beloved, which, in the authors’ attempts to bridge the assumed unrepresentability of trauma, employ features inherent to writing practices in trauma fiction, postmodernist fiction, and autobiographical fiction; in turn, this blending of the features transcends the boundaries dividing genres and therefore in these novels narrative representation of trauma goes beyond genre delineations. In reading these novels and their narrative representation of trauma, theoretical framework primarily relies on studies done in the realm of literary trauma studies, which inherently implies its connection to trauma studies, thus allowing for a creation of a pluralistic theoretical framework informed by psychoanalytical, literary, and narrative theories. Narrative representation of trauma is examined by investigating which narrative and fictional features are conveyed in order to incorporate trauma’s fragmentariness, unpredictability, belatedness, and immediacy. Narrative strategies and techniques are also analyzed, and the analytical process is approached by investigating employment of repetition, focalization, thought report, narrative dissociation, atemporal ordering or non-linear narrative as well as gapping, which not only narratively represent trauma, but also mimic the effects of trauma. Traumatic events and responses to traumatic events whose narrative representation is analyzed are also connected to the contextual structure of the narratives, in terms of their historical and temporal location. Oeuvres and literary aspirations of the authors are outlined in order to offer a pluralistic approach to analyzing the novels they wrote, as trauma and its narrative representation cannot be divorced from the societal, cultural, temporal, nor autobiographical contexts in which it was done. Our theoretical framework is based on the studies written by trauma theorists, such as Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, Bessel van der Kolk; literary trauma theorists including Michelle Balaev, Laurie Vickroy, Roger Luckhurst; and other studies written on postmodernism and postmodernist fiction, autobiographical fiction, as well as narrative theory.

Opis (srp)

Authors's biography: list. 223.Bibliografija: listovi 210-222. Datum odbrane: 13.02.2026. Literary Theory and Criticism

Jezik

srpski

Datum

2025

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