Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies

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Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies - Nebraska Journals The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (JLTS) is a peer-reviewed biannual journal with a critical, theoretical, and methodological f...

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Zong! exposes Philip’s violent struggle with English, a “foreign anguish,” inherited from the colonizer. She dismembers sentences, “murder[s]” and “mutilates the text, cut[s] it into pieces,” “white[s] out and black[s] out words.

In Zong!, Trauma and Multilingualism: Recovering the Languages of the Ancestors, Alex Lenoble argues that Zong! is as much a story about linguistic trauma as it is about historical and intergenerational trauma.

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Reed argues that The Golden Notebook represents a pivotal point in the history of literary studies, and especially in the trajectory of post-Freudian criticism, offering a methodology for presenting incest in literature that does not resort
to originary paranoia or harm-obfuscating euphemism.

In "Incest and the Anti-Psychoanalytic in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook," Griffin Reed reevaluates Lessing's novel as the first major attempt by a British author to demonstrate the racial character of incest in literature.
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In "Coping, Resilience, and Post-Traumatic Growth in Shiga Izumi’s Mujō no kami ga maioriru (2017)," Veronica De Pieri presents a study of Shiga Izumi’s Mujō no kami ga maioriru (2017), a testimonial narrative of the Tōhoku triple catastrophe that hit Japan on March 11, 2011.

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Farhani argues that failed political activism is not necessarily the result of external social constraints; rather, personal traumas can hinder resistance and prevent the successful expression of emotion.
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In “Post-Desire . . .Post-Good and Evil”: Counter-Affect and the Re-Traumatized Memory in Shukri Mabkhout’s The Italian ((JLTS, Vol. 12, Nos. 1–2), Amira Farhani examines gender and political trauma in Shukri Mabkhout’s novel The Italian (2021).
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The works analysed range from diaries to short stories and novels, from both canonical and little-known authors, such as Khalil #Sakakin, Jabra Ibrahim #Jabra, Emile #Habibi, Samira #Azzam, Edward #Said, Sahar #Khalifeh, Mahmoud #Al-Rimawi, Adania #Shibli, and Majd #Kayal.

In 'Mapping Anxiety in Palestinian Literary Railways' (JLTS, Vol. 12, Nos. 1–2), Nora Parr carries out a comparison between images of the railway in Palestinian works from the early 1900s to the present day.
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Rocío González-Espresati Clement - Symphony in White: The Attribution of Guilt #sexual_abuse #Lisboa

Sossie Kechichian - “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “One of the Missing”: Ambrose Bierce’s Anticipation of Psychological Trauma #American_Civil_War #Bierce

Lotta Viitala and Mehdi Ghasemi - The Haunting Past: Exploring Jude’s Trauma and Stigma in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life #Haunting #Yanagihara

Mona Becker - “Raised Under Glass”: Trauma, Gaze, and the City in Aminatta Forna’s Happiness (2018) #London #Forna

Veronica De Pieri - Coping, Resilience, and Post-Traumatic Growth in Shiga Izumi’s Mujō no kami ga maioriru (2017) #Resilience #Izumi

Griffin Reed - Incest and the Anti-Psychoanalytic in Doris
Lessing’s The Golden Notebook #Incest #Lessing

Nora Parr - Mapping Anxiety in Palestinian Literary Railways #Palestinian_Literature

Amira Farhani - “Post-Desire . . . Post-Good and Evil”: Counter-Affect and the Re-Traumatized Memory
in Shukri Mabkhout’s The Italian #Memory #Mabkhout

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JLTS is currently seeking peer reviewers who specialise in contemporary #Arabic #literature. If you are interested in contributing, please email the journal at litandtrauma@gmail.com with your full name, affiliation, and a brief summary of your areas of expertise 🙏

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Could you plz circulate:
JLTS is currently seeking peer reviewers who specialise in contemporary #Arabic #literature. If you are interested in contributing, please email the journal at litandtrauma@gmail.com with your full name, affiliation, and a brief summary of your areas of expertise 🙏

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