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On the banality of trauma
: Autoethnographic readings of trauma fiction

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis

Abstract

Woven together from personal experience, literary analysis and various theories and practices from psychology, OtBoT aims to discuss the connectedness, alienation, and difficulty of representing trauma in a text. Through five works of fiction, I explore personal connections to the text, parallels between disparate experiences and draw a series of observations, challenging some of the conventions established within the trauma studies field.
Date of Award6 Jun 2024
Original languageEnglish
Awarding Institution
  • University of Winchester
SupervisorDaniel Varndell (Supervisor) & Chris Mounsey (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • Trauma theory
  • English literature
  • Autoethnography

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