{"product_id":"9781501330872","title":"Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePoetics of Transgenerational Trauma\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMeera Atkinson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence, violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing racial and religious conflict. While traumas involving large-scale or historical violence are widely represented in trauma theory, familial trauma is still largely considered a private matter, associated with personal failure. This book contributes to the emerging field of feminist trauma theory by bringing focus to works that contest this tendency, offering new understandings of the significance of the literary testimony and its relationship to broader society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e adopts an interdisciplinary approach in examining how the literary testimony of familial transgenerational trauma, with its affective and relational contagion, illuminates transmissive cycles of trauma that have consequences across cultures and generations. It offers bold and insightful readings of works that explore those consequences in story-Alison Bechdel's \u003ci\u003eFun Home: A Family Tragicomic\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), Hélène Cixous's \u003ci\u003eHyperdream\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), Marguerite Duras's \u003ci\u003eThe Lover \u003c\/i\u003e(1992), Pat Barker's \u003ci\u003eRegeneration Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and Alexis Wright's \u003ci\u003eCarpentaria\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and \u003ci\u003eThe Swan Book\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), concluding that such testimony constitutes a fundamentally feminist experiment and encounter. \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the casting of familial trauma in ahistorical terms, and affirms both trauma and writing as social forces of political import.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMeera Atkinson\u003c\/b\u003e  is Lecturer in English Literature at New York University Sydney, Australia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTraumata\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and co-editor, with Michael Richardson, of \u003ci\u003eTraumatic Affect \u003c\/i\u003e(2013). Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in \u003ci\u003eSalon.com\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest Australian Poems 2010\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest Australian Stories 2007\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27 July 2017\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501330872\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332437803148,"sku":"9781501330872","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_db09d8ae-e547-4e04-9681-c7cca16d6895.jpg?v=1783603376","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781501330872","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}