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

by Christine Grogan

The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues 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. This interdisciplinary study traces the development of father-daughter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611479673
• ISBN13: 9781611479676
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"