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Editura Universitară Challenging identities. From theory to literary discourse - Florian Andrei Vlad

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Publisher: Editura Universitară

Author: Florian Andrei Vlad

Publisher year: 2022

Edition: I

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ISBN: 978-606-28-1494-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5682/9786062814946

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FLORIAN ANDREI VLAD 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS/ 9

INTRODUCTION/ 11

PART ONE
Challenging identity/ 21
Identity, language, and narrative/ 21
The crises of liberal humanism and identity in the age of the Industrial Revolution between culture and anarchy/ 26
The Freudian identity challenges/ 35
Identity challenges to previous views in later Freudian approaches and parallel developments/ 64
Responses to the liberal humanist self: anti‑humanist, poststructuralist views on identity and narrative/ 73
Some concluding remarks on the Freudian identity heritage/ 87
Identity and symbolic interactionism/ 89
Contemporary trends toward a more comprehensive theory
of identity: attachment theory and self verification theory/ 118    
Identity, representation and trauma/ 126
Trauma, the Holocaust and Holocaust Studies and identity/136
Preliminary or “postliminary?”: From the narrower to the broader perspectives on identity/ 167
The politics of identity, Identity Politics: 20th century
and 21st century challenges/ 169

PART TWO
From brief references to more extended discussion of identity coordinates applied to literary constructions of identity: some illustrations/ 180
Some preliminary remarks/ 180
Sylvia Plath’s identity constructions/ 183
Sylvia Plath’s ‘true self’ vs her identity constructions/ 183
Biographical coordinates and creative, created identity: the Freudian father figures/ 185
The patriarchal artistic figure and the feminine persona’s identity games in “The Colossus”/ 188
Ego development in “Daddy”/ 192
Dicing with death as an existential exercise in “Lady Lazarus”: “like a cat I have nine lives to live”/ 198
Embodying and responding to the trauma of the past in Morrison’s Beloved/ 203
From white and black fragility to the memorably grotesque: Toni Morrison’s challenge of identity stereotypes in Beloved/ 203
The 1983 epiphany: Morrison and the young woman out of
the water/ 207
Place, history, identity in Beloved/ 210
Sethe defining herself in relation to Beloved in Beloved/ 218
Creative ways of coping with war trauma in Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse‑Five and Heller’s Catch‑22/ 221
Vonnegut: biography, trauma and the postmodern condition/ 221
Metafictional conversations: author, title, genre, Intertextuality/ 228
The author’s dance with death in Billy’s travels across time and space/ 232
Humor, trauma, identity/ 242
Heller’s war experience and the novel’s gradual incursion into post‑traumatic stress disorder/ 249
From seedtime to traumatic war time experience/ 249
Madness and its method in Catch‑22’s narrative design/ 252
BIBLIOGRAPHY/ 263
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