What is it about?
The essay discusses the ways in which trauma relates to the novel and how trauma novels try to speak about the 'unspeakable'. It takes the two mentioned novels as examples and relates trauma to their narrative structures.
Featured Image
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
Why is it important?
It is important because there are hardly any works on the relation of trauma and narrative which show how theory can be applied to interpretative practice.
Perspectives
It draws the sum of my occupation with the South African trauma novel for the last ten years.
Ewald Mengel
Univerzita Tomase Bati ve Zline
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The Contemporary South African Trauma Novel: Michiel Heyns’ Lost Ground (2011) and Marlene van Niekerk’s The Way of the Women (2008), Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, March 2020, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ang-2020-0007.
You can read the full text:
Resources
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
