Fragmenting, Repeating, Rebuilding: The Chaotic Cyclones of Gisèle Pineau’s L’Espérance-macadam

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-303
Author(s):  
JOSEPHINE GOLDMAN
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Repetition Compulsion ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Slave Ship

This article explores the creative potential of the repeating cyclones at the heart of Gisèle Pineau’s 1995 novel L’Espérance-macadam. Examining the novel in relation to Édouard Glissant’s chaos-monde, it understands the cyclone not simply as catastrophe but also as an ambiguous agent of chaos in line with Glissant’s key metaphor of the slave ship, capable of both destroying and building anew a community through violent cycles of unearthing, fragmenting and interweaving. Engaging with previous critical readings of Pineau’s cyclonic figures that have relied on Freud’s “repetition compulsion”, this article argues that Pineau’s representation of external and internal repetitive events—natural disasters and personal traumas—are not to be read as regression or stasis, but as the possibility of incremental progress through constant movement and towards what Pineau names an “espérance-macadam”. Repetition thus becomes a catalyst for systemic change, allowing her protagonist to process trauma, join a community of survivors of sexual abuse and environmental injustice and find agency within and through the cyclonic events that affect her community.

scholarly journals Garbage Out: Space, Place, and Neo-imperial Anti-development in Gioconda Belli’s Waslala

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott DeVries
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Central American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Gioconda Belli ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
La Selva

Gioconda Belli’s Waslala criticizes the concept of “anti-developmental neo-imperialism”: the novel’s fictional Central American nation's development is cancelled by a form of neo-imperial conservation that forces the preservation of rainforest to supply breathable air to oxygen-starved nations that will cut off electrical power for non-compliance. The theoretical approach engages with the idea of a global expansion of the sense of place, but I argue that the novel rejects this notion when it comes down to an “anti-developmental neo-imperialist” political ecology of forced conservationism that is as guilty of environmental injustice as the ecological practices it seeks to prevent.ResumenWaslala de Gioconda Belli critica el concepto de “neo-imperialismo anti-evolutivo”: el desarrollo de la nación ficticia centroamericana de la novela se ve cancelada por  un tipo de conservación neo-imperial que obliga a conservar la selva tropical para proporcionar aire respirable a las naciones hambrientas de oxígeno que cortarán la energía eléctrica si no hay conformidad. El enfoque teórico se relaciona con la idea de una expansión global del sentido del lugar, pero yo alego que la novela rechaza esta noción cuando es cuestión de es una ecología política “neo-imperialista anti-evolutiva” de conservacionismo forzado, que es tan culpable de la injusticia medioambiental como las prácticas ecológicas que busca prevenir.

Understanding Revictimization Among Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors: An Interpersonal Schema Approach

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marylene Cloitre ◽  
Lisa R. Cohen ◽  
Polly Scarvalone
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Trauma Survivors ◽  
Repetition Compulsion ◽  
History Of Childhood ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interpersonal Schema

Revictimization among women with a history of childhood sexual abuse was investigated within the context of a developmental model of interpersonal schemas. Data from the Interpersonal Schema Questionnaire (ISQ) revealed contrasting schema characteristics among sexually revictimized women (those sexually abused in childhood and sexually assaulted in adulthood) (n = 26), compared to those only abused in childhood (n = 18), and those never abused or assaulted (n = 25). Both revictimized women and never victimized women significantly generalized their predominant parental schemas to current relationships and differed only in the content of the schemas. The generalized parental schema of revictimized women viewed others as hostile and controlling while that of never victimized women viewed others as warm and noncontrolling. Women who had only been abused in childhood held schemas of parents as hostile but not controlling and did not generalize from parental to current schemas. The tendency to generalize observed in the first two groups suggest that “repetition compulsion” is not limited to those who were traumatized and are psychologically distressed. In this article, reasons for the absence of generalization among the childhood abuse only group are explored and implications for the treatment of childhood trauma survivors are discussed.

scholarly journals SEXUAL ABUSE IN LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON’S NOVEL SPEAK

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Dwi Anggriani ◽  
M. Amrin Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This paper discusses the impacts of sexual abuse found in the novel Speak which has been selected as the source of data because this novel has a strong impact on sexual abuse victim. The story is about a female teenager who becomes a victim of abuse and it gives her many impacts. The aims of this study are to find out and analyze the impacts of sexual abuse and is conducted based on the concept of sexual abuse, a crime related to sexuality and more specifically related to male and female sexuality. Sexual abuse can include sexual harassment and sexual assault. Sexual abuse is an act that can harm and damage the victims with physical, psychological, sexual and even emotional impacts.  This study applies descriptive qualitative method which collects the data taken from the novel that has been read. The result of the study shows that there are three forms of sexual abuse impacts: physical, psychological and behavioral.

Black Bodies/Libidinal Economies in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-33
Author(s):  
Carolyn Jones Medine ◽  
Lucienne Loh
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Middle Passage ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Slave Ship ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Blacks And Whites

Abstract Barry Unsworth’s Booker Prize winning novel, Sacred Hunger (1992), explores the Middle Passage from the perspective of two central protagonists: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a slave ship builder and owner of the Liverpool Merchant, and Matthew Paris, his cousin and the ship’s doctor. The novel asserts that the “sacred hunger” of the slave trade is the desire for making money, at any cost. In this essay, we argue that one cost, the novel suggests, is the commodification of women’s bodies, particularly black captive women entering the trade. Exploring this libidinal economy, we examine the role of the ship’s doctor, in Paris, as the keeper of the gateway to slavery; the sexual exploitation of both black and white women, and Unsworth’s use of the trace—in this case, the elusive figure of the Paradise Nigger, or Luther Sawdust, who is Paris’ son, Kenke, conceived in a new settlement based on democracy undertaken in Florida and engaged in by both blacks and whites from the wrecked Liverpool Merchant. Capitalism, through human competition, enters that community, which, ultimately, is destroyed as Kemp discovers it and retakes his property. The Paradise Nigger represents a counter-memory and counter-force: a hope that the repetition of master-slave dichotomy in the libidinal economy can be interrupted by something “other” that suggests alternative shapes of human freedom.

Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier: A Life

May Sinclair ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Female Education ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Cult Of Domesticity

May Sinclair’s reimagining of the late-Victorian poet in Mary Olivier: A Life examines the obstacles facing the artist-heroine in her quest for intellectual freedom, self-definition and artistic autonomy at the turn of the century. Very much constrained by her life at home by her mother, who defends the ideals of the cult of domesticity, Sinclair’s artist-heroine spends the majority of the novel trying to escape the oppressive forces of Victorian society, and Mary specifically challenges many of the period’s patriarchal standards concerning women’s right to an education as well as masculinist definitions of appropriate forms of female creativity. One of the main influences guiding Mary towards her artistic fulfilment is her desire for knowledge, and Sinclair questions the boundaries of acceptable female education in Victorian England by focusing specifically on Mary’s interest in Greek studies—a traditionally masculine subject. Crucially, this essay examines Sinclair’s presentation of Mary’s autodidactism and explores how education influences not only the development of the woman artist, but how it impacts her own understanding of her creative potential as Mary’s theories about language and the translation process shape her burgeoning Imagist style at the turn of the twentieth century.

Soziale Arbeit nach traumatischen Erfahrungen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Gebrande
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Soziale Arbeit ◽  
Traumatic Experiences

You may be faced with the consequences of traumatic events in many fields of social work: child maltreatment, physical, psychic or sexual abuse, accidents, natural disasters, wars and fleeings and many other shattering events are shaping the experiences of many clients. In this textbook the basics of psychotraumatology, concepts of trauma-related counselling and pedagogy as well as ideas of self-care are provided in a clearly arranged and comprehensible way. It presents helpful suggestions to students and social workers on how to interact with people after traumatic experiences. If you like to learn methods and get to know materials for stabilisation that improves the coping and recovery for kids, youth and adults in the daily life, this book is written for you. Julia Gebrande is professor for social work studies after she gained a varied experience in dealing with trauma as a social worker.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Hopkins ◽  
Neville King
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder

In recent years researchers and clinicians have paid increasing attention to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. Issues of definition and evaluation are discussed and studies of children subsequent to natural disasters, accident, war, sexual abuse and human-made traumas are reviewed. Issues relating to treatment and “debriefing” are also discussed.

scholarly journals The New Face of Abuse?: Questioning the Fall of the Father and Assessing the Child Exploitation in Deborah Moggach’s Porky

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Poulomi Modak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Child Exploitation ◽  
A Site

In contemporaneous world child sexual abuse is possibly the most heinous kind of child exploitation; therefore, continuous dialogue and discourse regarding the child sexual abuse should be given the primordial prominence in order to be well aware about and thereby engage with possible measures against this monster in the closet. It is in this context that the paper attempts through a detailed and critical analysis of Deborah Moggach’s controversial novel Porky to make a reading of the narratives of pain, sufferings, and trauma inflicted upon the ‘abject’ body. Further, the novelist has incorporated the havoc of non-consensual incest which concomitantly attributes the novel as a site for insightful discussion. The proposed article, therefore, interrogates family as a possible locus of sexual exploitation of the children. This reorientation of family as a disintegrated entity eventually brings forth the question of victim’s rehabilitation. Extending this, the paper finally argues any possible healing of the oppressed body.

The Beast in the Closet: Interrogating the Trauma of Sibling Incest in Emma Donoghue’s Neo-Victorian Novel The Wonder

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Poulomi Modak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
Religion And Law ◽  
Sibling Incest

Emma Donoghue’s neo-Victorian novel The Wonder (2016) is a remarkable exploration of the Victorian era’s indifference towards the issues of woman and child safety against the heinous crimes of sexual abuse. The horror of sibling incest, which eventually develops the sense of guilt within the protagonist and gradually isolates her from the entire extrinsic world, has been taken into consideration for the analysis of the unusual narratives of tremendous shock and trauma that the novel enterprises. The paper examines incest as a trope for inflicting everlasting trauma and seeks to locate if amelioration is at all achievable for the abused ‘body’. The intended study further interrogates the placid indifference of the contemporaneous behavioural patterns of the societal institutional bodies of family, religion, and law, while encountering the forever forbidden taboo of incest.

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