Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing

Henke, Suzette A.

ISBN 10: 0312230982 ISBN 13: 9780312230982

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000

Language: English

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First printing of the stated first paperback edition. 8vo. Trade paperback format. 216 pages. Notes. List of Works Cited and Consulted. Index. Warmly inscribed in black ink to the former owners on the dedication page by the author, who signed herself "Suzette." A splendid copy in very good condition.

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Title: Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0312230982
ISBN 13: 9780312230982
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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In this important book, Suzette Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode

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SUZETTE A. HENKE is Thruston B. Morton Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Louisville. She is the author of James Joyce and the Politics of Desire and Joyce's Moraculous Sindbook: A Study of 'Ulysses' and the co-editor of Women in Joyce.

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