Sökning: "trauma fiction"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden trauma fiction.

  1. 1. Herbarium Gothic : A Trauma Theory Approach to the Pulp of V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Evangelina Nicole Dimovska; [2023]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the literary representation and construction of mental illness in characters resulting from childhood trauma in the gothic pulp novel Flowers in the Attic (1979) by Cleo Virginia Andrews (1923-1986). Through a close reading of the novel, the analysis will emphasise the narration, interpersonal relationships, and constructed psyche primarily of the main character Cathy Dollanganger. LÄS MER

  3. 2. "You just have to belong. Long to be" : Narrativ, identitet och trauma i Melina Marchettas On the Jellicoe Road

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Sofie Ek; [2023]
    Nyckelord :On the Jellicoe Road; Melina Marchetta; Perry Nodelman; Maria Nikolajeva; Narrative; Alternating Narratives; Unreliable narrator; Literary devices; Storytelling; Plot; Puzzle; Reader; YA fiction; Orphan; Bildungsroman; Identity; Trauma; Memory; On the Jellicoe Road; Melina Marchetta; Perry Nodelman; Maria Nikolajeva; Narrativ; Växlande narrativ; Opålitlig berättare; Litterära verkningsmedel; Berättande; Handling; Pussel; Läsaren; Fiktion för unga vuxna; Föräldralösa; Bildningsroman; Identitet; Trauma; Minne;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines how narrative structures such as: alternating narratives, unreliable narrators, and literary devices affect the predominant storyline in fiction targeted at young adults. Because On the Jellicoe Road depicts an orphan character’s coming of age, attention is additionally brought to the novel’s portrayal of how identity and identities are displayed in relation to the overall mystery that finding one’s family creates. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Can Video Game's Invincible Protagonist Beat Capitalism? : A political genealogy through Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Författare :Leo Springfield; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Video Games; Capitalism; Capitalist Realism; Science Fiction; Marxism; Politics; Deconstructionism; Post-Humanism; Creativity; Nietzsche;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis is a meta-narrative discourse regarding the subversion in the representation of late capitalist realism. Through a post-humanist Marxist perspective, it connects three video game industry’s favorites with the ultimate question of capitalism: Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium‪‬. LÄS MER

  5. 4. ‘The Gaps Between Stories’ : Examining the Gray Area of Sexual Consent in The Handmaid’s Tale

    Kandidat-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Paulina Sundqvist; [2022]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : This project’s aim was to examine how the institutionalization of rape and sexual violence becomes problematic if analyzed through the conceptual lens of consent and complicity. After this close reading of consent and sexual violence, the answers are still not clear or easily discerned. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Afrofuturism and Generational Trauma in N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Imogen Bagnall; [2021]
    Nyckelord :N. K. Jemisin; Afrofuturism; Trauma; Collective Memory; Science Fiction; Oppression;

    Sammanfattning : N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy explores the methods and effects of systemic oppression. Orogenes are historically oppressed and dehumanised by the wider society of The Stillness. LÄS MER