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Katherine Mansfield and the Trauma of War: Death, Memory and Forgetting in “An Indiscreet Journey,” “The Garden Party,” “At the Bay,” “Six Years After” and “The Fly”

Abstract

the aim of this article is to demonstrate how much criticism has underestimated the footprint left by the trauma of the Great War in the fiction of Ka-Mansfield. The proposed rereading — in the light of current theories on trauma writing — shows the frequency of images referring to violence, death and loss. The examination of An Indiscreet Journey, The Garden Party, At The Bay, Six Years After and The Fly reveals that Mansfield’s fiction at the same time tries to cure and not cure the psyche while the text of An Indiscreet Journey seems to suppress emotional reactions in a situation of war. in ‘The Garden Party’, Laura’s character perceives the beauty of the non-life body of the charretier Scott, the universal dimension of his perception echoing the deuil of Mansfield whose brother died on the front. The article highlights the fineness of Mansfield’s modernist narrative techniques in the ambivalent epiphania of ‘At the Bay’. and also in the complexity of the symbolic nature of violence in The Fly. The author’s artistic mastery often enables him, as is the case in ‘Six Years After’, to maintain at all costs the painful emotional tension she recasts without this choice of complexity affecting his remarkable strength.

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