Writing as reparation: Biographical trauma writing in Ian Mcewan’s atonement

• Autores: Denise Borille de Abreu
• Localización: Anuari de filologia. Literatures contemporànies, ISSN-e 2014-1416, Nº. 8, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Anuari de Filologia. Literatures Contemporànies), págs. 159-167
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article aims to analyze biographical trauma writing in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001). In this novel, the narrator and protagonist Briony Tallis decides to become a nurse during The Second World War, as some kind of personal penance. Her auto fictional writing, nonetheless, reveals a possibility to repair her past trauma. The text addresses, more remarkably, the therapeutic properties of autobiographical fiction writing, having as references current assumptions both on trauma theory and life-writing.