Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels

Name: Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels
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By Marinella Rodi-Risberg

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Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women's literature, which the author calls spiritual trauma narratives, that testify to traumas caused by epistemological violence, wreaked by ongoing colonialism, systematic racism, and marginalization grounded in a binary, hierarchical, and supremacist post-Enlightenment epistemology that negates the spiritual knowledge of interconnectivity found in people of color's belief systems. Placing trauma theory in productive conversation with women of color feminist studies, Marinella Rodi-Risberg explores literary texts by Chicana, African American, and Native American authors that engage readers in the protagonists' transformative encounters with ancestral knowledge through symbols, ritual, dreaming, storytelling, and interactions with the natural world. In this way, the author argues, they model a shift in awareness regarding historical and present traumas including slavery, genocide, racial and sexual violence, highlighting the importance of literature as a site of knowledge production and resistance.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 272
Release Date:: 2026-01-16
Publication Date:: 2026-01-16
Publisher:: Springer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 3031786432
ISBN13:: 9783031786433
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 356 g
Height:: 14.8 cm
Width:: 21 cm
Thickness:: 1.5 cm

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