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Hammond, Yvonne Michelle Swartz.

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Storytelling, Survival, and Child Figures in Contemporary American Life-Writing.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Storytelling, Survival, and Child Figures in Contemporary American Life-Writing./
Author:	Hammond, Yvonne Michelle Swartz.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	222 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10274217
ISBN:	9781369765748

Storytelling, Survival, and Child Figures in Contemporary American Life-Writing.
Hammond, Yvonne Michelle Swartz.

Storytelling, Survival, and Child Figures in Contemporary American Life-Writing. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 222 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--West Virginia University, 2017.

My dissertation explores strategies for survival primarily related to acts of storytelling, and more specifically storytelling with the tacit agreement for measures of truth, what I refer to in my title as life-writing. The term "life-writing" refers broadly to literary and theatrical works that are connected to the lived-experience. The texts I examine, all written in the U.S. after 1990, consider the impact of traumatic and unjust pasts through sweeping, epic narratives. Each of these texts tells a separate story about injustice through stories that reveal children as victims of discursive and/or actual violence arising out of conflict between and within institutional and family identities. Instead of viewing these texts as isolated and unrelated, my dissertation places these stories in conversation with one another to ask what we can learn about the child and survival. Childhood in these texts is an act of performative grieving, mourning the loss of a self that either never was or a self that was lost quickly to experiencing or witnessing trauma.

ISBN: 9781369765748Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

Storytelling, Survival, and Child Figures in Contemporary American Life-Writing.
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