Trauma and the Condition of the Postmodern Identity

Danielle Mortimer

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于Traumatic Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice

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Page Range:: 137–144

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880856_016

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Trauma studies have been employed as a way to understand a large variety of contemporary events. One area where trauma studies have become particularly pertinent is in relation to postmodern culture. Critics who make the link between trauma and the postmodern argue that it is a belated attempt to express the trauma of previous events such as the Holocaust and the Second World War. They attempt to locate the trauma of the postmodern within a historical framework. This chapter will explore the links between the postmodern and trauma studies in an alternate way. It will argue that trauma studies can be used to show how and why the postmodern is not a response to a previous traumatic event, but constitutes a current traumatic event in itself. This concept of the postmodern arises from Jean- François Lyotard’s The Inhuman. As with previous studies of the links between the postmodern and trauma, Lyotard, and subsequently this chapter, figure the connection largely through the timeframe of the traumatic. A traumatic experience can be considered as that which is understood later – often too late, after the event has ceased. Consequently, these events cause a rupture in the understanding of the contemporary experiences of those to whom they occur. This rupture has led to a struggle within postmodern literature to represent the postmodern, which has alienated both postmodern society and its literature, since they are unable to form an identity that relates to it, or has a recognised and understood place within it. This chapter will look at the struggle to represent the postmodern-as-trauma in Bret Easton Ellis’ 2005 novel Lunar Park, in which the individual, personal trauma of the narrator is intertwined with the cultural trauma of the postmodern condition.

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Traumatic Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice

ISBN:: 9781848880856

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 15 Apr 2011

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