![]() Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture Wallace and I Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction Jamie Redgate Articulations of Resistance Transformative Practices in Arab-American Poetry Sirène H. ![]() Her work has been published in journals such as Atlantis, The Nordic Journal of English Studies and Orbis Litterarum, and in volumes such as Memory Frictions: Conflict, Negotiation, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan). María Ferrández San Miguel is a lecturer at the Department of English and German Studies (University of Zaragoza). ![]() Doctorow’s literary project-through its representation of psychological trauma and its attitude toward 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. The book puts forward the claim that E.L. 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 study springs from the assumption that Doctorow’s literary project is eminently ethical and has an underlying social and political scope. 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. Doctorow This project approaches four of E.L. ![]() DOCTOROW Marfa Ferrandez San Miguel Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. TRAUMA, GENDER AND ETHICS IN THE WORKS OF E.L. Table of contents : Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Welcome to Hard Times: The Frontier Reconsidered Shame, Guilt, Violence and Trauma In Search for a New Gender Order Discussion and Conclusion 2 The Book of Daniel: A Memoir Gone Awry The Trauma of a Grievous Past Gender Oppression and/as Power Discussion and Conclusion 3 Ragtime: Remembering the Future Trauma and Resilience The Politics of Gender Discussion and Conclusion 4 City of God: With Eyes Past All Grief Fictionalizing the Holocaust Voicing Gender Discussion and Conclusion 5 Discussion: The Ethics and Politics of Literature Conclusion Index Citation preview ![]()
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