Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Adrienne Jones Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 116 ISBN: 9783659505911
Описание
My analysis of the works of Virginia Woolf and Cherrie Moraga reveals that insidious trauma pervades oppressed minority subjectivities which stems from ranked power relationships. Since trauma resists linguistic representation, the language used to express it will always be figural; for this reason figurative language provides us with a means of representing the ineffable experience of trauma. Trauma archiving is the process of articulating the specific nature of one’s trauma(s) and observing the associated affects and traumas that ensued after the traumatic experience(s). Virginia Woolf validates trauma archiving by producing auto-biographical and experimental narratives. Cherrie Moraga’s process of trauma archiving takes form in her retelling of ancestral indigenous myth to reconfigure individual and collective Chicana lesbian traumas. By unearthing trauma as a form of resistance to Chicano gender and sexuality norms, Moraga reconfigures a valid sexual, multi-ethnic self as a...
