RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Of Holes and Wounds: Postcolonial Trauma and the Gothic in Catherine Jinks’s The Road
A1 Arizti Martín, Bárbara
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
AB This paper analyses Catherine Jinks’s The Road (2004), a multi-protagonist novel, looking into the relationship between personal and historical forms of trauma in the context of postcolonial Australia and following Rothberg’s comparatist approach. More specifically, and taking advantage of the many synergies between the traumatic and the gothic, it studies the novel’s reliance on gothic tropes like the uncanny and the abject in order to demonstrate that both theme and narrative form work together against the overcoming of individual and national plights. The indigenous paratexts that frame Jinks’s story, read in the light of Walter Benjamin’s theses on history, prove particularly meaningful in this respect.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33712
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33712
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 39 (2018) pags. 193-214
DS UVaDOC
RD 08-may-2024