By Ronald Granofsky
Creation 1; bankruptcy ONE: facing "It": the explicit problem of the Trauma Novel: (Carter, Lessing, Hoban, Vonnegut, Amis) 21; bankruptcy : Elemental Dissolution: Trauma and Transformation: (Kosinski, Golding, Findley, Hoban) sixty five; bankruptcy 3: The levels of Trauma reaction: Regression, Fragmentation, and Reunification: (Atwood, Tournier, Thomas) 107; bankruptcy 4: accepted concerns: Postmodernism and the Trauma Novel: (Coetzee, Pynchon) 151; NOTES 177; WORKS mentioned 179; INDEX 191.
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She had opened her bowels into the freshness of the white bed and had taken handfuls of the stuff and smeared it everywhere with quick shrieks of triumph and joy" (143). Suddenly, the ogress-mother enters, and, horrified and disgusted, proceeds to wash the child in a way that is unmistakably a punishment, scalding and halfdrowning her. But it is her words which more than anything sear into the flesh of memory: "' ... Emily, you are a dirty naughty-oh, disgusting, you are a filthy dirty dirty girl, Emily'" (144).
The agony of trauma has been absorbed and integrated. The individual is also representative of a group faced with trauma, ultimately, the human race faced with destruction. The dissolution caused by trauma and the stages in trauma response are the focus of chapter three. Here works by Atwood, Tournier, and Thomas demonstrate how collective disaster calls for a fictional response in which the trauma is mimed in order to be overcome in stages to the extent that it can ever be overcome. In the final chapter, I shall attempt to place the concept ofthe trauma novel within the context of contemporary fiction in general and postmodernism in particular.
As time becomes space in the world behind the wall, the narrator's running through corridors and passages allows her to regress in time and find what she feels was "inevitable" (148): "Up went the little arms, desperate for comfort, but they would be one day those great arms that 40 Dealing with "It" had never been taught tenderness ... " ( 149). The narrator recalls another baby she has seen in this world, one who might be Emily or her mother or both together: "The baby was desperate with hunger.