The language of silence: speechlessness as a response to terror and trauma in contemporary fiction
Following World War II the novel faced a crisis in its mode of address. How could the human and humane function of language and artistic representation be lent to the depiction of historical terror or trauma? Who has the right to speak on behalf of – or to assume the voice of – victims of such real...
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University of Canterbury. Humanities
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4422 |