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Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels : Speaking the Unspeakable by Md Abu Shahid Abdullah, Author is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels : Speaking the Unspeakable about?
This book explores the close association between the literary representation of historical trauma and the alternative narrative form of magical realism, underscoring the role of memory, empathy and imagination. It discusses the potential of magical realism to give a literary representation to individual and collective trauma arising from the Holocaust, slavery, and apartheid, and to turn those unspoken memories into narratives. It also analyses the role of magical realism in depicting trauma suffered by female victims during and following those events. Again, by dealing with the above-mentioned events, their specific historical context and universal meaning for humankind, this book highlights a universal experience of trauma.
Who reads Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels : Speaking the Unspeakable?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Md Abu Shahid Abdullah, Author
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781527546288
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Horror, True Crime