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A trauma artist : Tim O'Brien and the fiction of Vietnam /

A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending fiction that paradoxically "recovers" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. Mark Heberle considers O'Brien's career...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heberle, Mark A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending fiction that paradoxically "recovers" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. Mark Heberle considers O'Brien's career as a writer through the prisms of post-traumatic stress disorder, postmodernist metafiction, and post-World War II American political uncertainties and public violence
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxvii, 344 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index.
ISBN:1587293285
9781587293283
0877457603
9780877457602