Writing and Reading to Survive: Biblical and Contemporary Trauma Narratives in Conversation

by L. Juliana Claassens

Writing and Reading to Survive brings a number of trauma narratives from the Hebrew Bible into conversation with contemporary trauma narratives, exploring how these ancient and modern-day stories mitigate the experiences of pain and suffering in the face of trauma.

Focusing on the intersection between trauma and gender, the trauma narratives here include biblical narratives emerging from the cataclysmic events that all but destroyed the people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191092878X
• ISBN13: 9781910928783
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"