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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| author | Tan, Marcus Yi Hern |
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| description | 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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| spelling | ntu-10356/742032020-10-28T02:02:05Z Bonsai boy : the traumatised child in Emma Donoghue’s room Tan, Marcus Yi Hern Yong Wern Mei School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology 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. Master of Arts (HSS) 2018-05-08T02:31:10Z 2018-05-08T02:31:10Z 2018 Thesis Tan, M. Y. H. (2018). Bonsai boy : the traumatised child in Emma Donoghue’s room. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74203 10.32657/10356/74203 en 97 p. application/pdf |
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| title_short | Bonsai boy : the traumatised child in Emma Donoghue’s room |
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