The Indivisibility of Change: The Challenge of Trauma to the Genre of Coming-of-Age Narratives

Evie Wyld’s novel All the Birds, Singing (2013) draws attention to the interrelation of personal history, trauma narratives, and coming-of-age stories. Herein, Wyld’s novel will be analysed with reference to two bodies of theory: Bergson’s model of the “indivisibility of change” (p. 263), which re-c...

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Main Author: Nicole Frey Buechel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The International Academic Forum 2018-06-01
Series:IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
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Online Access:https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-arts-and-humanities/volume-5-issue-1/article-2/