Discovering the religious dimension of trauma : : trauma literature and the Joseph Story / / by Caralie Cooke.

• Superior document: Biblical Interpretation Series ; 202
• VerfasserIn: Cooke, Caralie,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation Series ; 202.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)

This book reads the Joseph novella alongside contemporary trauma novels in order to analyze the loss of the assumptive world of the writer and readers of the Joseph novella. In turn, it re-thinks trauma theory in light of the “religious,” understood as the belief in and relationship to a God who orders the universe. Thus, this book argues that when we read the Joseph novella alongside contemporary trauma novels, we see a story written by people trying to reconstruct their assumptive world after the shattering of their old one, highlighting the significance of the religious dimension in trauma theory.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Outline of the Project -- Chapter 2 Understandings of Trauma -- 1 Current Definitions of Trauma -- 2 Aspects of Defining Trauma -- 2.1 DSM -- 2.2 Contextualization -- 2.3 Shifting Language -- 2.4 Individual vs. Collective Dimensions of Trauma -- 2.4.1 Individual Trauma -- 2.4.2 Collective Trauma -- 2.4.3 The Overlap between the Individual and Collective Dimensions of Trauma -- 2.5 Trauma Expressed through Literature -- 2.5.1 Trauma Narratives vs. Trauma Novels -- Chapter 3 Context of the Joseph Novella -- 1 Context of the Joseph Story: Babylonian Exile and Loss of the Assumptive World -- 2 Interpreting the Context of Contemporary Trauma Novels -- 3 Disjunctions between Contemporary Trauma Novels and the Joseph Novella -- 4 Reverberations of Trauma -- 5 Silence of Trauma -- 6 Rewriting What It Means to Be the People of God -- Chapter 4 Characterization in the Joseph Novella -- 1 Self-Protection and Self-Legitimation -- 1.1 Joseph -- 1.2 Joseph's Brothers -- 2 Persistent Rumination -- 2.1 Joseph -- 2.2 Joseph's Brothers -- 2.3 Joseph's Father -- 3 Fractured Views of Self -- 3.1 Joseph -- 4 Limited Healing -- 4.1 Joseph -- 4.2 Joseph's Brothers -- 4.3 Joseph's Father -- Chapter 5 Place in the Joseph Novella -- 1 Place in the Joseph Novella -- 1.1 Canaan as Home -- 1.1.1 Joseph in Canaan -- 1.1.2 Joseph's Family in Canaan -- 1.2 Egypt as Land of Exile and Asylum -- 1.2.1 Joseph in Egypt -- 1.2.2 Joseph's Family in Egypt -- 1.3 In-between Places -- 1.3.1 Wandering -- 1.4 Pit and Imprisonment -- Chapter 6 Symbolism in the Joseph Novella -- 1 Narration -- 1.1 Point of View -- 1.2 Silence -- 1.3 Unreliable Narrator -- 2 Survival -- 2.1 Famine -- 2.2 Inversion of Birth Order -- 2.3 Illegitimate Sex -- 3 Death -- 3.1 Ambiguity of Death -- 3.2 Threat of Death -- 3.3 Deaths and Burials -- 4 Dreams.

Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Contemporary Trauma Scholars and Novelists.