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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lecheheb Ikram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Language and Cultural Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2021-0020