Bonsai boy : the traumatised child in Emma Donoghue’s room
Much of existing theorisation of literary trauma privileges the adult perspective over the child perspective, with critics such as Cathy Caruth and Anne Whitehead focusing their research on narratives that revolve around adult victims—or sufferers—of trauma. This paper seeks to expand upon the exist...
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74203 |
| Summary: | Much of existing theorisation of literary trauma privileges the adult perspective over the child perspective, with critics such as Cathy Caruth and Anne Whitehead focusing their research on narratives that revolve around adult victims—or sufferers—of trauma. This paper seeks to expand upon the existing assumption that the sufferer of trauma is synonymous with the adult perspective by putting forward a study of the traumatised child—the individual who exists outside of conventional tenets of traumatic experience when it comes to how they are represented in fiction. |
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