“You are you and he is he” : spaces and alterations of subjectivity in representations of trauma.

• Main Author: Lim, Yan Wen.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15532
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This essay builds on and reverses Cathy Caruth’s point of needing to re-examine trauma in literature through a close analysis of Gao Xingjian’s One Man’s Bible and Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma. This need to re-examine trauma in fiction arises as a result of continued effort and attempt to overcome the pro...