Dave Eggers's What Is the What: Fictionalizing Trauma in the Era of Misery Lit

E Twitchell - American Literature, 2011 - read.dukeupress.edu
Twitchell's essay examines Dave Eggers's What Is the What (2006) in the context of recent
international interest in the morality of uncertainty, a stance which looks to self-erasure, not …

[PDF][PDF] The voices of others: Dave Eggers and new directions for testimony narrative and cosmopolitan literary collaboration

B Yost - ariel: a review of international english literature, 2011 - journalhosting.ucalgary.ca
Dave Eggers is probably best known for his ironic playfulness and his preoccupation with
middle-class US adolescence, so his sincere treatment of genocide in Sudan in his novel …

The ethics and aesthetics of representing trauma: The textual politics of Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker

J Collins - Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing prominence of trauma theory in literary analysis since the 1990s has led
some critics to revise notions of the relationship between reader and text. This is not simply …

Affect, empathy, and engagement: Reading African conflict in the global literary marketplace

M Krishnan - The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through
readings of Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers' What Is the What …

HUMANITARIAN NARRATIVE AND POSTHUMANIST CRITIQUE: DAVE EGGERS'S" WHAT IS THE WHAT"

M Peek - Biography, 2012 - JSTOR
Dave Eggers's What Is the What is the fictionalized real-life story of Valentino Achak Deng,
one of Sudan's" Lost Boys." Critical of a rhetoric of rescue and promise, the novel questions …

Enlisting rage and speaking place: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria

B Haylock - Traumatic Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and …, 2011 - brill.com
Abstract Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006) explores embodied and indigenous subjectivity,
presenting Australian society reeling from the genocidal trauma and subsequent rage at its …

The Ethics of Identification: The Global Circulation of Traumatic Narrative in Silko's Ceremony and Roy's The God of Small Things

JL Freed - Comparative Literature Studies, 2011 - JSTOR
In Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, Tayo's intrusive memories transport him from his
quiet life at an isolated sheep camp to the jungles of the Pacific where he fought as a soldier …

Traumas and transformations: fictions which play with what" they say", by Zakes Mda and Lindsey Collen

M Flockemann - Journal of Literary Studies, 2004 - journals.co.za
There has been an ongoing debate on attempts to translate traumatic experiences, both
personal and public, into a variety of cultural forms. In fictional accounts, particularly, this has …

[图书][B] Critical modesty in contemporary fiction

T Dancer - 2021 - books.google.com
" From climate catastrophe to pandemics and economic crises, the problems facing
humanity can feel impossible to solve. Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction argues that …

Theorizing irony and trauma in magical realism: Junot Díaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao and Alexis Wright's The swan book

MK Takolander - ariel: a review of international english literature, 2016 - muse.jhu.edu
Magical realism has been commonly theorized in terms of a postcolonial strategy of cultural
renewal, according to which such fiction is understood as embodying a racialized …