Between the urge to know and the need to deny: trauma and embodied memories in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye (1988)
The study intends to explore and analyze the role of corporeality in expressing earlier repressed traumatic events as manifested in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye (1988). It shows that the protagonist, Elaine Risley, is imprisoned within the prison of her traumatic past memories that still live involun...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2021-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Language and Cultural Education |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2021-0020 |