Trauma Plot: A Life

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Synopsis
From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival"Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. Trauma Plot is a glass case of such wonders."—Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby and Stag DanceIn the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, how to be a good girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood&’s &“bold vulnerability,&” and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in good girl&’s margins—of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage left behind. With her trademark critical remove, Hood interrogates the archetype of the rape survivor, who must perform penitence long after living through the unthinkable, invoking some of art&’s most infamous women to have played the role: Ovid&’s Philomela, David Lynch&’s Laura Palmer, and Artemisia Gentileschi, who captured Judith&’s wrath. In so doing, she asks: What do we as a culture demand of survivors? And what do survivors, in turn, owe a world that has abandoned them? Trauma Plot is a scalding work of personal and literary criticism. It is a send-up of our culture's pious disdain for &“trauma porn,&” a dirge for the broken promises of #MeToo, and a paean to finding life after death.
Copyright:
2025

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
336 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593700990
Related ISBNs:
9780593700976, 9798217065639, 9798217065646
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Jamie Hood
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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