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Demanding Witness
- Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy
Engelsk Hardback
Demanding Witness
- Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy
Engelsk Hardback

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Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus'' Agamemnon, Sophocles'' Women of Trachis, and Euripides'' Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, Erika L. Weiberg examines how and why female characters'' expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and suppressed by other characters and sometimes by the plot of the play itself. Tragic representations of female noncombatants'' trauma after war expose the ripple effects of violence that wars create, even for individuals and communities distant from the fighting. At the same time, these characters'' expressions of trauma also create a conflict of witnessing for other characters and the audience. By shifting focus to the returning hero''s wife and the women he enslaves, Weiberg calls attention to the detrimental effects of structural and chronic forms of trauma in addition to trauma caused by discrete, catastrophic events. Weiberg argues that recognizing women''s trauma in these tragedies requires questioning how Greek society was organized through hierarchies that privilege the hero''s story of trauma and recovery to the exclusion of other types of stories and experiences.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780197747322
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0197747329
Udg. Dato:
19 jun 2024
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
163mm
Højde:
242mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
19 jun 2024
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