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

by Meg Jensen

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the representation of traumatic experience. From autobiographical fictions to prison poems, from witness testimony to autography, and from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030061051
• ISBN13: 9783030061050
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"