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Discovering the Religious Dimension of Trauma
Trauma Literature and the Joseph Story
Series: - Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 202
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This book reads the Joseph novella alongside contemporary trauma novels in order to analyze the loss of the assumptive world of the writer and readers of the Joseph novella. In turn, it re-thinks trauma theory in light of the âreligious,â understood as the belief in and relationship to a God who orders the universe. Thus, this book argues that when we read the Joseph novella alongside contemporary trauma novels, we see a story written by people trying to reconstruct their assumptive world after the shattering of their old one, highlighting the significance of the religious dimension in trauma theory.
Caralie Cooke, Ph.D. (2020), Emory University, is a Religion Instructor at Cranbrook Schools. She has published several articles on the Bible and trauma and the Bible and queer theory.
â2âAspects of Defining Trauma
3 Context of the Joseph Novella
â1âContext of the Joseph Story: Babylonian Exile and Loss of the Assumptive World
â2âInterpreting the Context of Contemporary Trauma Novels
â3âDisjunctions between Contemporary Trauma Novels and the Joseph Novella
â4âReverberations of Trauma
â5âSilence of Trauma
â6âRewriting What It Means to Be the People of God
4 Characterization in the Joseph Novella
â1âSelf-Protection and Self-Legitimation
â2âPersistent Rumination
â3âFractured Views of Self
â4âLimited Healing
5 Place in the Joseph Novella
â1âPlace in the Joseph Novella
6 Symbolism in the Joseph Novella
â1âNarration
â2âSurvival
â3âDeath
â4âDreams
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
3 Context of the Joseph Novella
â1âContext of the Joseph Story: Babylonian Exile and Loss of the Assumptive World
â2âInterpreting the Context of Contemporary Trauma Novels
â3âDisjunctions between Contemporary Trauma Novels and the Joseph Novella
â4âReverberations of Trauma
â5âSilence of Trauma
â6âRewriting What It Means to Be the People of God
4 Characterization in the Joseph Novella
â1âSelf-Protection and Self-Legitimation
â2âPersistent Rumination
â3âFractured Views of Self
â4âLimited Healing
5 Place in the Joseph Novella
â1âPlace in the Joseph Novella
6 Symbolism in the Joseph Novella
â1âNarration
â2âSurvival
â3âDeath
â4âDreams
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Readership for this book mainly includes libraries, specialists, and students interested in approaches to the Bible and trauma, the Bible and psychology, or the Bible and comparative literature.