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Book Title
Traumatic Imagination : Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction
Publication Name
The Traumatic Imagination
Title
The Traumatic Imagination
Subtitle
Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction
Author
Eugene L. Arva
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
1604977779
EAN
9781604977776
ISBN
9781604977776
Publisher
Cambria Press
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Philosophy
Topic
General, Popular Culture
Release Date
08/08/2011
Release Year
2011
Language
English
Item Height
229mm
Item Length
152mm
Item Width
24mm
Item Weight
680g
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
Xiv, 330 Pages

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While a number of recent works have linked magical realism to postcolonial trauma, this book expands the trauma-theory-based analysis of magical realism. Borrowing from the Russian Formalist Mikhail Bakhtin, the study adapts his concept of chronotope to that of shock chronotope in order to describe unstable time-spaces marked by extreme events. Besides trauma theory, contemporary theories of representation formulated by Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, and Slavoj i ek, among others, corroborate specific literary analyses of magical realist novels by Caribbean, North American, and European authors. The study discusses a series of concepts, such as "spectacle" and "hyperreality," in order to create an analogy between the hyperreal, a spectacle without origins, and magical realism, a representation of events without a history, or a recreation of an absence that first needs to be acknowledged before it can be assigned any meaning. Magical realist hyperreality is meant to be a reconstruction of events that were "missed" in the first place because of their traumatic nature. While the magical realist hyperreal might not explain the unspeakable event, if only to avoid the risk of an amoral rationalization, it makes the ineffable be vicariously felt and re-experienced. This study establishes a somewhat unorthodox nexus between magical realist writing (viewed primarily as a postmodern literary phenomenon) and trauma (understood both as an individual and as an often invisible cultural dominant), and proposes the concept of "traumatic imagination" as an analytical tool to be applied to literary texts struggling to represent the unpresentable and to reconstruct extreme events whose forgetting has proven just as unbearable as their remembering. The traumatic imagination defines the empathy-driven consciousness that enables authors and readers to act out and/or work through trauma by means of magical realist images. Corroborated by elements of trauma theory, postcolonial studies, narrative theory, and contemporary theories of representation, the work posits that the traumatic imagination is an essential part of the creative process that turns traumatic memories into narratives. Magical realism lends traumatic events an expression that traditional realism could not, seemingly because the magical realist writing mode and the traumatized subject share the same ontological ground: being part of a reality that is constantly escaping witnessing through telling. Over more than half a century now, magical realism has demonstrated its versatility by affecting literary productions belonging to various cultural spaces and representing different histories of violence. This book examines novels by traumatized and vicariously traumatized authors who make extensive use of fantastic/magical elements in order to represent slavery, postcolonialism, the Holocaust, and war. The Traumatic Imagination: Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction is an important book for magical realism- and trauma theory-based critical collections."

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Publisher
Cambria Press
ISBN-10
1604977779
ISBN-13
9781604977776
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117056959

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Book Title
Traumatic Imagination : Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction
Author
Eugene L. Arva
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Popular Culture
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
Xiv, 330 Pages

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Lc Classification Number
Pn56.M24a78 2011
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-025313
Dewey Decimal
809.3/915
Dewey Edition
23

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