Tag: trauma
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“The Beating of a Child Was By No Means Reprehensible”: Alice Munro, Freud, and the Long Aftermath of Crimes Against Children
A question from a student about Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are? (the question being whether it’s autobiographical) sent me back to her terrifying story “Royal Beatings” this morning. Then an interview that I read recently had me searching for Freud’s “A Child Is Being Beaten.” This will become a longer critical piece. Just…
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Writing Trauma in Crime Fiction
This is a brief post as I grapple with two very significant texts that inform my thinking about crime and trauma: Erin Wunker’s Notes from a Feminist Killjoy is a book of essays and in these varied pieces Wunker offers moving and critically rigorous hybrid personal/academic writing. It’s a book that I’ve returned to several…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 