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Hoofard, Jennifer Michelle.

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Flesh wounds: Reading the scar as text in the works of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Flesh wounds: Reading the scar as text in the works of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison./
Author:	Hoofard, Jennifer Michelle.
Description:	361 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3398.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3236006
ISBN:	9780542898761

Flesh wounds: Reading the scar as text in the works of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison.
Hoofard, Jennifer Michelle.

Flesh wounds: Reading the scar as text in the works of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. - 361 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3398.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2006.

Much groundbreaking feminist criticism concerns the means by which the woman's body can be read as a text and how the woman's body functions as an inscriptive surface. Yet, for all the new attention to The Body, the concrete, fleshed body seems to get lost amid the philosophical body, which paradoxically renders the body strangely disembodied. My work expands on such theoretical work by considering the body literally, reading the literal marks on the body as a record of traumatic memory. In so doing, I explore the dilemma of a body burdened with the narratological function of serving as text for trauma. I focus my study on the works of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, and Toni Morrison, diverse writers whose attention to the locus of the female body borders on the obsessive.

ISBN: 9780542898761Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

Flesh wounds: Reading the scar as text in the works of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison.
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520 $a Much groundbreaking feminist criticism concerns the means by which the woman's body can be read as a text and how the woman's body functions as an inscriptive surface. Yet, for all the new attention to The Body, the concrete, fleshed body seems to get lost amid the philosophical body, which paradoxically renders the body strangely disembodied. My work expands on such theoretical work by considering the body literally, reading the literal marks on the body as a record of traumatic memory. In so doing, I explore the dilemma of a body burdened with the narratological function of serving as text for trauma. I focus my study on the works of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, and Toni Morrison, diverse writers whose attention to the locus of the female body borders on the obsessive.
520 $a The scar is a place in the flesh where violence to the body is recorded. Scarring is literally the act of the body remembering the trauma it has suffered, and the body's response to such trauma is protective; the scar is a building up of tissue, a site of original hurt covered over thickly so as not to feel. The body speaks what the survivor sometimes can't articulate or chooses to repress, the body becoming literally a text of its history. In this way, the body betrays the memory the survivor has repressed. The image of the scar thus becomes a ripe site to explore the physical and psychic remnants of trauma.
520 $a I consider trauma to the female body, focusing on the image of the wound, scar or bruise on the skin. Indeed, the original meaning of the Greek word trauma was "wound," referring to an injury to the body, and in medical circles that meaning still holds. In my dissertation, entitled Flesh Wounds: Reading the Scar as Text in the Works of Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, and Toni Morrison, I consider the image of the wound, scar, or bruise in contemporary women's writing, both poetry and fiction, to examine the ways in which the female body can function as a text, a landscape or map marking the trauma the body has experienced.
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