For my Phd I'm working of how writing has supposed for a novelist a way of cure his traumas of the war and something vital for him. I need to support my ideas with theory and litterary criticism.
Well, I've recently read Fanon's The Wretched of The Earth. He dedicated his last chapter for the psychological traumas caused by war on his patients in Algeria. He took their stories and put them in his book. Also, you can see Freud's definition of trauma and use psychoanalysis as a framework besides the biographical approach to connect the text with the life of the novelist.
I think you can find below a good introduction to your subject.
Good Luck Aina Linares,
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/550779g5
http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v5_1/blake/
http://ojs.cf.ac.uk/index.php/newreadings/article/viewFile/72/58
http://wlajournal.com/23_1/images/rolen.pdf
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1078&context=dissertations_2
http://www.jgballard.ca/criticism/jgb_secretcode.html
I recently thumbed through a couple chapters of Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks, published in 2014 and edited by Peter Meineck and David Konstan (ISBN 9781137398857).
Thank you both. I'm sure that with your suggestions I can find sources to make a good introduction to my subject!
Aina,
Gerard Steen has published a paper entitled "Metaphor as a window on talk about trauma and post traumatic growth". See if it helps.
In addition to the suggestions above, you may also look up Nicole Drozd's "Storytelling through Song Writing: A Music Therapy Group For Veterans". Nicole can be reached on [email protected] Hope it helps.
There is a lot of material on poets' and novelists' responses to the conflicts of the twentieth century. Anglo-American, French, and German poetry of the 1920s deals with war trauma, as do many of the novels of the period. Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier andthe Parade's End trilogy would be a reasonable place to start. For literary criticism, Paul Fussell's book on World War One. For World War II: Jospeh Heller's Catch 22, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got his Gun. And in Science Fiction, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.
"There are plenty of war poetry, fiction, and memoirs. However, that doesn't mean writing is "curative." "
Thank you!
There's actually evidence that journalling (a kind of "flooding" that is a popular treatment for PTSD) actually backfires when the patient is traumatized by acts they perpetrated or witnessed without intervening or that they later learned were not as they seemed. Look up "moral injury."
If you want citations on the "journaling can be really bad for some veterans diagnosed with PTSD, LMK and I'll dig them out.
Shoshana Felman’s 1992 book Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. I just read a review of Trauma theory that included analysis of this. here is the link to the article:
RO - 2006 - Marder.pdf
http://readingon.library.emory.edu/issue1/articles/Marder/RO%20-%202006%20-%20Marder.pdf
Aina, I suppose you already know about Susana Onega-Jaén, University of Zaragoza. She´s doing research on trauma studies.
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