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Fictionalising Trauma: The Aesthetics of Marguerite Duras’s India Cycle
Author:
Sirkka Knuuttila
ISBN:
9783631609811
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2011
Pages:
310
Size:
15 x 21 cm
Weight:
500 grams
Price:
INR
3290.00
About the Book
With Marguerite Duras being the most disputed French artist after World War II, symbolising trauma represents the most problematic crux of contemporary trauma research. This book brings together these troublesome issues by way of integrating Duras’s aesthetics and the challenge of working through major historical trauma. Starting from the concept of an embodied mind as developed in current social neuroscience, the study illuminates the stylistic devices of the famous India Cycle that arose from Duras’s relentless struggle with the trauma of French colonialism. It reveals how converting trauma into fiction can become a powerful emotional strategy for surviving traumatic events, which may provoke necessary changes in our cultural memory through collective sharing.
About the Author
Sirkka Knuuttila
Sirkka Knuuttila is a medical doctor who holds PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Helsinki. Working as a literary researcher and cognitive therapist she has written articles on Marguerite Duras, trauma, emotion and the embodied self as well as Roland Barthes’s semiotics and Friederike Mayröcker’s poetry.
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