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“Trauma-creep” and literature: does a single minded focus on trauma diminish literary characters?

February 4, 2022June 14, 2022
by Steven Beattie

The reduction of literary characters to a history of trauma is too often used as convenient shorthand, robbing us of the pleasure found in complexity and ambiguity.

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