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...
Main Author: | Nicole Frey Buechel |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The International Academic Forum
2018-06-01
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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/ |
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