Seeking symbolic immortality: visualizing trauma in Cat's Eye.(Critical Essay)

From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Vickroy, Laurie | Copyright information

This study investigates how Cat's Eye, a novel about an artist's development, explores the complex interrelationship between trauma, identity, and culture, and specifically, how trauma shapes the construction of the protagonist's gendered identity and visual sense while her artistic discipline mediates trauma and helps her decipher fantasies perpetuating her emotional stasis.

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Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood's 1988 novel about an artist's development, ex...

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