A study into the narrative techniques used to convey non-physical childhood sexual abuse and trauma in contemporary Western fiction

通过探索小说作者用来传达和代表儿童性虐待（CSA）的变体形式的技术，我的研究旨在提供新鲜的文学和女权主义者的洞察力，这些经验在西方文学和理解中并不常见：虐待不包括或涉及不必要的触摸，而是由暴露和骚扰组成。在探索这些形式的CSA时，我将在女权主义理论的创伤经典中推进当前的讨论，并进一步发展由凯西·卡鲁斯等理论家开创的创伤语言框架。为了实现这一目标，我将对探讨儿童或青少年性暴力的文本进行比较分析-如蓝宝石，罗克珊·盖伊，艾玛·格拉斯，丽贝卡沃森和爱德华圣奥宾-和女权主义话语和精神分析，以寻求方法，用于我自己的写作，特别是侧重于记忆的作用，在实现创伤。我的项目将集中在这些方面：a）记忆造成创伤; B）镜像创伤; c）创伤的语言。

By exploring the techniques used by authors of fiction to convey and represent the variant forms of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), my research aims to provide fresh literary and feminist insight into experiences that are not commonly represented in Western literature and understanding: abuse that does not include or involve unwanted touching, but which instead consists of exposure and harassment. In exploring these forms of CSA, I will advance current discussions within the trauma canon of feminist theory, and further develop trauma language frameworks pioneered by theorists such as Cathy Caruth.To achieve this aim, I will conduct a comparative analysis between texts that explore childhood or adolescent sexual violence - such as those by Sapphire, Roxane Gay, Emma Glass, Rebecca Watson and Edward St Aubyn - and feminist discourse and psychoanalysis, to seek out methods for use in my own writing, with a particular focus on the role of memory in realising trauma. My project will focus on these strands: a) memory creating trauma; b) mirroring trauma; and c) the language of trauma.