Surrogate Selves: Forging Affective Connections in Autobiographical Trauma Narratives
暫譯: 代理自我：在自傳性創傷敘事中鍛造情感連結
Bahr, David
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2026-07-24
- 售價: $5,810
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,519
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 221
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3032241200
- ISBN-13: 9783032241207
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商品描述
An autobiographically inflected work of lifewriting scholarship, this groundbreaking study examines how five autobiographical (or, in Tim O'Brien's case, autobiographically adjacent) literary texts--The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; "Kaddish" by Allen Ginsberg; "The White Album" by Joan Didion; and "Prisoner on the Hell Planet" by Art Spiegelman, and Psychiatric Tales by Darryl Cunningham--use distinct techniques of their respective genres--metafiction, poetry, essay, graphic narrative--to communicate the affective experience of psychic pain. This book situates the autobiographical subject/text as a stand-in (a surrogate self) for readers unable to give voice to their trauma.
Building on foundational lifewriting scholarship--particularly the work of Philippe Lejeune, Mary Mason, John Paul Eakin, and Nancy K. Miller -- this book enlarges the scope of the relational self posited by Mason and subsequent feminist lifewriting scholars and extends the concept of relationality from the autobiographical subject and "chosen other" within an autobiographical text to the autobiographical text and the reader, specifically, here, in autobiographies of trauma.As a former foster child and ward of the state with no surviving family or institutional records, the author has turned to the texts examined here--specifically those of O'Brien, Didion, Ginsberg, and Spiegelman--in the (re)construction of his lost, fragmented, and traumatic history, helping to objectify and articulate embodied memories that otherwise have had no locus. At key moments in the book, the author discusses his autobiography and affective connections to these four works, merging theory and practice. The book is distinctive in using this extended theoretical approach and the strategic use of autobiographical writing and personal history to map how O'Brien, Ginsberg, Didion, Spiegelman, and Cunningham communicate the experience of psychic pain.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這是一部自傳性質的生命寫作學術作品，這項開創性的研究探討了五部自傳性（或在 Tim O'Brien 的情況下，自傳性相近）文學文本——Tim O'Brien 的《他們所背負的東西》、Allen Ginsberg 的《卡迪什》、Joan Didion 的《白色專輯》、Art Spiegelman 的《地獄星球上的囚徒》以及 Darryl Cunningham 的《精神病故事》——如何利用各自類別的獨特技術——元小說、詩歌、散文、圖像敘事——來傳達心理痛苦的情感體驗。本書將自傳主體/文本視為無法表達其創傷的讀者的替代者（代理自我）。
本書基於基礎的生命寫作學術研究——特別是 Philippe Lejeune、Mary Mason、John Paul Eakin 和 Nancy K. Miller 的工作——擴大了 Mason 和隨後女性主義生命寫作學者所提出的關係自我的範疇，並將關係性概念從自傳文本中的自傳主體和「選擇他者」擴展到自傳文本與讀者之間，特別是在創傷自傳中。
作為一名曾經的寄養兒童和無存活家庭或機構記錄的監護人，作者轉向這裡所檢視的文本——特別是 O'Brien、Didion、Ginsberg 和 Spiegelman 的作品——以（重）建構他失落、破碎和創傷的歷史，幫助物化和表達那些本無法具體化的身體記憶。在書中的關鍵時刻，作者討論了他的自傳以及與這四部作品的情感聯繫，將理論與實踐融合。本書的特點在於使用這種擴展的理論方法，以及戰略性地運用自傳寫作和個人歷史，來描繪 O'Brien、Ginsberg、Didion、Spiegelman 和 Cunningham 如何傳達心理痛苦的體驗。
作者簡介
David Bahr is an Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York (CUNY), USA. His scholarship, journalism, and creative writing have appeared in The New York Times; The New York Times Book Review; GQ; Poets & Writers; Prairie Schooner; Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse; Class, Please Open Your Comics: Essays on Teaching With Graphic Narratives; American Creative Nonfiction, Critical Insights Series; Modern Language Association's Approaches to Teaching Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, and The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinities in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
大衛·巴赫是美國紐約市立大學（CUNY）曼哈頓社區學院的英語副教授。他的學術研究、新聞報導和創意寫作曾發表於《紐約時報》、《紐約時報書評》、《GQ》、《詩人與作家》、《草原船》、《情感障礙與寫作生活：憂鬱的繆斯》、《班級，請打開你的漫畫：關於用圖像敘事教學的隨筆》、《美國創意非虛構文學，批判洞察系列》、《現代語言協會的教學艾莉森·貝克德的《快樂之家》方法》以及《當代英語文學中的男性氣質手冊》。
