Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless

This interdisciplinary study rereads father-daughter incest narratives of the last hundred years to argue for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences.

Author: Christine Grogan
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 11/06/2018
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781611479690