UID:
almahu_9949385879702882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429280870
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0429280874
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9781000038224
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100003822X
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9781000038194
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100003819X
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9781000038163
,
1000038165
Series Statement:
Routledge research in american literature and culture
Content:
This project approaches four of E.L. Doctorow's novels--Welcome to Hard Times (1960), The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1975), and City of God (2000)--from the perspectives of feminist criticism and trauma theory. The study springs from the assumption that Doctorow's literary project is eminently ethical and has an underlying social and political scope. This crops up through the novels' overriding concern with injustice and their engagement with the representation of human suffering in a variety of forms. The book puts forward the claim that E.L. Doctorow's literary project--through its representation of psychological trauma and its attitude towards gender--may be understood as a call to action against both each individual's indifference and the wider social and political structures and ideologies that justify and/or facilitate the injustices and oppression to which those who are situated at the margins of contemporary US society are subjected.
Note:
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Welcome to Hard Times; the Frontier Reconsidered; Shame, Guilt, Violence and Trauma In Search for a New Gender Order; Discussion and Conclusion -- Chapter 2. The Book of Daniel; a Memoir Gone Awry; The Trauma of a Grievous Past; Gender Oppression and/as Power; Discussion and Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Ragtime; Remembering the Future; Trauma and Resilience; The Politics of Gender; Discussion and Conclusion -- Chapter 4. City of God; with Eyes Past All Grief; Fictionalizing the Holocaust; Voicing Gender; Discussion and Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Discussion; the Ethics and Politics of Literature -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367236274
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367236273
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429280870
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429280870
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