The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical: Negotiated Truths

ISBN-13: 9783030061050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 299 str.

Meg Jensen

Spis treści

1. The Negotiated Truth.- 2. Valuing the Witness: Typologies of Testimony.- 3. Time, Body, Memory: The Staged Moment in Posttraumatic Letters, Journals, Essays and Memoirs.- 4. What it is like: Fiction, Fear and Narratives of Feeling in Posttraumatic Autobiographical Novels.- 5. Speaking In and Speaking Out: Postttraumatic Poetry and Autography.- 6. Annihilation and Integration in Collective Posttraumatic Monuments, Testimonies and Literary Texts.- 7. The Art and Science of Therapeutic Innovation: Hope for PTSD Sufferers Today and Tomorrow.

O autorze

Meg Jensen is Associate Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing and Director of the Life Narrative Research Group at Kingston University. In 2014 she co-edited a major collection, Life Narratives and Human Rights, with Margaretta Jolly. She lives in London with her lovely family and two rather stupid cats.