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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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 |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 344 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index. |
ISBN: | 1587293285 9781587293283 0877457603 9780877457602 |