Contemporary American Trauma Narratives / / Alan Gibbs.
Winner of the 2015 Irish Association for American Studies Peggy O'Brien Book PrizeExamines the representation of trauma in contemporary American fiction and non-fictionThis book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as 'me...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Trauma Paradigm and Its Discontents
- 1. Twentieth-Century Trauma Narratives: Some Paradigmatic Texts
- 2. Traumatic Metafiction and Ontological Crisis
- 3. 9/11, Collective Trauma, and Postmodernist Responses
- 4. Gulf War Memoirs and Perpetrator Trauma
- 5. It Could Happen Here: Trauma and Contemporary American Counterfactuals
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index