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Title: | Memories of child abuse in Jim Grimsley's Dan Crell trilogy |
Author: | Trušník, Roman |
Document type: | Peer-reviewed article (English) |
Source document: | Moravian Journal of Literature and Film. 2010, vol. 2, issue 1, p. 53-63 |
ISSN: | 1803-7720 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) |
Abstract: | The essay explores the theme of child abuse in Jim Grimsley's early fiction, namely in the three novels sometimes known as the Dan Crell trilogy: Winter Birds, My Drowning, and Comfort & Joy. Four forms of abuse can be identified in the trilogy: sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and abuse by neglect. Important themes of the novels include the role of memory in coping with the trauma of child abuse later in adulthood as well as the influence of past abuse on family dynamics. In the individual novels, the author uses various narrative situations and techniques in order to explore the way memory works. |
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