As a result of the fall: explorations of the trauma postmodern
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2012
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Not only does the traumatic event instigate the subject's confrontation with death, but it can also suggest a narrative subject that is multiple and protean. Through a process of narrative (re)construction, writing about a traumatic event that relates to death (re)actively (re)orients the individual subject to the social world and enables healing. But rather than reconstitute the subject within socially derived narratives and reinforce the logocentric project to signify trauma coherently, a posttraumatic writing may better account for the figural happening of the traumatic event. Posttraumatic writing consents to the indeterminate and comes to terms with that which is unrepresentable to memory and yet which cannot be forgotten. The terms poststructuralism and postmodernism are themselves troubled and troubling figures in a trauma meta-narrative wherein the individual agent no longer operates as the privileged, autonomous subject of modernity, but instead develops fragmented and multiple. By continually (re)arranging 'partial' or 'distorted' phrases and their linkages, my posttraumatic text, entitled "As a Result of the Fall," internalizes the disruption that is poststructuralism, and explores the possibilities of postmodern ism as a liberating, and perhaps even therapeutic aesthetic practice.
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Kinney, I. G. (2012). As a result of the fall: explorations of the trauma postmodern (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4983