Christine Grogan Boeken

Not only a superb case study on how the Netherlands' Turkish community defines itself, this remarkable book's message resonates across the wider European debate currently raging on immigration. schovat popis

Focusing on father-daughter incest narratives over the past century, this interdisciplinary study emphasizes literature's role in portraying not just isolated traumatic events but also chronic and complex traumas. It challenges previous theories by advocating for a deeper understanding of how these narratives reflect cumulative experiences, thereby expanding the discourse on trauma representation in literature.

This interdisciplinary study rereads father-daughter incest narratives of the last hundred years to argue for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to ch...