Contours of a Wound: A LaCapraean Reading of Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby.

Published In: Texas Studies in Literature & Language, 2025, v. 67, n. 1. P. 27 1 of 3
Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3
Authored By: Sap, Halilcan 3 of 3

Abstract

Although Dominick LaCapra's recent work has been influential in psychoanalysis and history, his reformulation of two Freudian terms, "acting out" and "working through," has not received due attention in literary and cultural trauma studies. With the intention of uncovering the traumatic impact of 9/11 on Chuck Palahniuk's popular fiction, this article highlights the two levels on which the contours of the tragedy may be observed: in Lullaby 's treatment of post-traumatic processes, and in its exhaustive critique of the American mass media. Taking as a departure point E. Ann Kaplan's proclamation that the attacks gave rise to a "new subjectivity," this study ventures to trace the silhouette of this new subjectivity onto the words of one of America's best-selling authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Source:Texas Studies in Literature & Language. 2025/03, Vol. 67, Issue 1, p27
Document Type:Literary Criticism
Subject Area:Political Science
Publication Date:2025
ISSN:0040-4691
DOI:10.1353/tsl.00003
Accession Number:184655850
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