Affects of Speech Truth telling among trauma survivors is what Caruth, relying on Freud, refers to as the ‘crying wound’ (1996: 8), and as Kristeva notes, Duras both expresses and inflicts pain as she pulls off the ‘careful making up of [her]self’, exposing this ‘absolute vulnerability and melancholy’ malady (Kluchin 2018: 43). The wound never…

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