Contemporary American Trauma Narratives /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gibbs, Alan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Temas:
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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