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Tone Clusters: the Joyce Carol Oates discussion group archive

Thursday, July 19, 2007

RE: JCO: Trauma

The collection The Goddess and Other Women has several. Many of the stories deal with the traumatized bodies of children.

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From: owner-jco@usfca.edu on behalf of SMorales
Sent: Fri 7/20/2007 12:35 AM
To: jco@usfca.edu
Subject: Re: JCO: Trauma


Hi Christa,

A traumatized body can be a raped, abused body, a body that has suffered a traumatic event. 'Rape: a love story' or 'First Love' come to mind.

Silvia


NotEnoughKittens@aol.com wrote:


I am unclear what you mean by "traumatized bodies."




Christa


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