Papers by Beverly Haviland
Common Knowledge, Apr 1, 2014
Routledge eBooks, May 22, 2023
Routledge eBooks, May 22, 2023
Routledge eBooks, May 22, 2023
Routledge eBooks, May 22, 2023
Routledge eBooks, May 22, 2023
Common Knowledge, 2008
The opening of this book is stunning. The five-year-old Ayaan is being drilled by her grandmother... more The opening of this book is stunning. The five-year-old Ayaan is being drilled by her grandmother to chant their clan lineage, to the thirteenth generation. This must be done at every new encounter to determine whether her genealogy intersects, at any generational point, with any new person she meets. It is who she, and they, are. Out of this first scene an understanding of her culture unfolds. Clan
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 1987
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The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse
The Henry James Review, 1991
American Literature, 1998
Choice Reviews Online, Jul 1, 2013
This essay about two novels of 9/11 argues that the possibilities of mourning—in Jonathan Safran ... more This essay about two novels of 9/11 argues that the possibilities of mourning—in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)—or melancholia —in Don DiLillo’s Falling Man—are opened or foreclosed by the author’s deployment of a temporal framework that spans generations so as to allow for a period of latency before a new meaning can be made. The temporal deferral of meaning defines Nachträglichkeit, and Freud’s linking of this notion to the biphasic nature of human sexuality indicates why the transgenerational narrative is an effective figuration of the transformation of traumatic effects and affects. The relations between the narrator and the characters in these two novels represent opposing possibilities of a transformative asymmetrical reciprocity, as in a successful analytic transference, or relations of domination and thwarted mutuality that perpetuate the compulsive repetitions of trauma. Foer’s strategic use of multiple narrators and multiple generations plays out an alternative to the inevitable transmission of traumatic effects across generations by showing how a complex rearrangement of the roles that characters play for each other allows the work mourning to progress.
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 1997
The Henry James Review, 2004
"It is a complex fate being an American," said Henry James in 1907 after his first visi... more "It is a complex fate being an American," said Henry James in 1907 after his first visit back to his homeland in two decades. Being a New Yorker at the turn of the last century was perhaps particularly complex because of the incredibly rapid pace of change in this city, both of its ...
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Papers by Beverly Haviland
Jennifer Wang, "Cyclical Time and Rebirth: Repetition in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Augustine’s Confessions"
Aaron B. Daniels (Moderator), "Dante and Phenomenology"