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  1. 1. Thinking back and thinking forward – through her own split. En metateoretisk studie om självbiografisk metod och trauma hos Shoshana Felman och Maxine Hong Kingston

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Författare :Christina Kall; [2015-12-01]
    Nyckelord :Shoshana Felman; Maxine Hong Kingston; What Does a Woman Want?; The Woman Warrior; autobiography; trauma; perverted agency; feminism; testimony;

    Sammanfattning : Is it possible to speak or write about yourself, if you are considered, or experience yourself, as not able or allowed to do so? Can a person gain subjectivity and agency in limited situations? In this study I outline a new term called perverted agency to examine moments and figures within the text and the autobiographical gesture where limited spaces are transformed by a renegotiation of a hierarchy of values. According to literature critic Shoshana Felman in What Does a Woman Want? (1993), women cannot write autobiographies due to trauma and its impact upon memory. LÄS MER