Literackie konstrukcje traumy kulturowej: ideologiczny wymiar ‘kobiet w żałobie’ w powieściach Roberta Edrica In Desolate Heaven oraz Jodie Shields The Crimson Portrait
Literary Constructions of Cultural Trauma: Ideological Implications of the ‘Woman in Grief’ in Robert Edric’s In Desolate Heaven (1997) and Jodie Shields’s The Crimson Portrait (2008)

Summary/Abstract: Trauma theories have proven an immensely influential framework in the humanities. However, contemporary fictional representations of the Great War all too often focus on soldiers or veterans as the traumatized victims. In epistemological terms, the trauma of war experience has generally been considered superior to civilian trauma, which is related to the grief of losing a beloved person at the front. Focusing on Robert Edric’s In Desolate Heaven (1997) and Jodie Shields’s The Crimson Portrait (2008), Sokołowska-Paryż examines the ideological implications of the literary constructions of the ‘woman in grief.’ Here she draws on cultural trauma theories as well as psychological theories of mourning.

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