“The Curious Alphabet of Our Lives”: Transgenerational and Vicarious Childhood Trauma in Edward P. Jones’s “Spanish in the Morning” and “Common Law”
In two of the most powerful stories from Edward P. Jones’s second collection of short fiction, All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006), a young girl exhibits physical symptoms of trauma after her exposure to violence. Jones links each child’s individual terror to the legacies of fear and oppression marking...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2024
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |