A Study Of Trauma In Jeanette Winterson’s Novels

Jeanette · Winterson is a contemporary British writer.Winterson’s novels are inseparable from his traumatic experience.She writes her own painful encounters into novels and fully use various art means to resolve these traumas.Trauma is an integral part of Winterson’s life,and it has also made Winterson.This article mainly analyzes the works from the traumatic perspective of Winterson’s four representative novels,Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,Passion,Writing on the Body and Lighthouse Keeping.Based on the collation and research of related literatures,this paper is divided into four parts.The first and second chapters are static representations of the types of trauma in the four representative works of Winterson.The third and fourth chapters explore the healing of trauma and the aesthetics of trauma from the perspective of traumatic narrative.As a mission-oriented writer,Winterson is also trying to explore ways to heal wounds while writing trauma.The third chapter of this article combines relevant psychological works with story texts to explore how the protagonist emerges from the trauma and get reborn.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes how Winterson gives trauma to literary form in the narrative with the examples of Orange Is Not the Only Fruit and Lighthouse Keeping and other representative works which mainly from the use of fairy tales and legendary literary genres to analyze the Winterson’s trauma aesthetics.Winterson’s novels have always explored answers about love,life,and the universe.From resisting the pain of the ground to accepting the loss of peace,Winterson’s thinking about trauma is a process of deepening development.Winterson’s novels carry the writer’s painstaking thoughts in a delicate structure and wise language.