2002
DOI: 10.1353/mod.2002.0009
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Authenticity and Art in Trauma Narratives of World War I

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“…Hence, works that took women and non-combatants as their focus began to appear on library shelves (Tylee 1990;Cooke and Woollacott et al 1993;Ouditt 1994). Writers such as Margaret Higonnet (Higonnet et al 1987;Higonnet 1993Higonnet , 1999Higonnet , 2001Higonnet , 2002 and Angela Smith (2000a, 2000b have been particularly influential in 'restoring' women to their place in the historical record. These authors focused in particular on autobiographical and semifictional works, such as those of Florence Farmborough, Ellen LaMotte and Mary Borden.…”
Section: The Historical Uses Of Personal Writingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Hence, works that took women and non-combatants as their focus began to appear on library shelves (Tylee 1990;Cooke and Woollacott et al 1993;Ouditt 1994). Writers such as Margaret Higonnet (Higonnet et al 1987;Higonnet 1993Higonnet , 1999Higonnet , 2001Higonnet , 2002 and Angela Smith (2000a, 2000b have been particularly influential in 'restoring' women to their place in the historical record. These authors focused in particular on autobiographical and semifictional works, such as those of Florence Farmborough, Ellen LaMotte and Mary Borden.…”
Section: The Historical Uses Of Personal Writingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In many ways their approaches could be categorised as 'discourse analyses', as they often scanned the writings of their 'subjects' for evidence of what could be defined as a woman's perspective on the war, also emphasising the marginalised roles of female participants such as nurses. Margaret Higonnet uses Borden's Forbidden zone as evidence of the trauma suffered by female nurses; she, along with others, such as Ariela Freedman, also emphasises its status as an important 'modernist' text (Freedman 2002;Higonnet 2002). Yet, women's historians have themselves presented what can be seen as a distorting perspective of the nurses' experience, deliberately selecting, as they did, the reflective writings of middle-and upper-class VADs rather than the more pragmatic output of the trained nurses.…”
Section: The Historical Uses Of Personal Writingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At other times the voice of the author drawso ur attention to her own struggles and personal growth, as she wrestles with the contradictions of military medicine between healing and fosteringt he return of men to the battlefront.Aswomen assumednew roles,their self-understanding changed. Just as students of war literature have focused on the experience of trauma in the writingsofsoldiers, we also note evidence of trauma in the struggle of medicalstaff to bringtheir experiences to paper (see Higonnet 2002). This evidence protrudes,especiallyingapsbetween episodesrecorded, shifts in voice from immediate present tense to retrospective,orshifts from observation to commentary.…”
Section: Introductory Questionsmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…4 She highlights the ways in which some women's writings were shaped by their roles as witnesses to trauma and suffering. Indeed, literary critics have identified the works of some nurses as one of the driving forces behind the modernist movement.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%