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T1 Escaping Trauma thougth a Dreamworld: fantasy and the Evasion of Pain in Jane Yolen's "Briar Rose" and John Boyne's "The boy in the Striped Pyjamas"
A1 San José Rico, Patricia
A1 Mezquita Fernández, María Antonia
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB Fiction has always been part of human beings, accompanying them even in the most difficult situations of life. In fact, certain victims of acute trauma may tend to mask and evade the pain they suffer by creating their own fictional world as a means of escaping from reality. This has become a recurrent theme In contemporary literature, as in the cases of Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, whose characters would respectively block a traumatic memory by replacing it with a fantasy or stubbornly refuse to see the painful reality in front of their eyes choosing over it a less harsh fictional alternative. Through the analysis of these two books, this article will compare and contrast these two different ways to deny a traumatic reality and will highlight the necessity to recover those repressed memories not only to work through past traumas, but to give voice and pay homage to those overcome by them.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17399
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17399
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2011, N.32, pags.301-316
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024