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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Heberle, Mark A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001.
Sujets:
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946- > Criticism and interpretation.
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946-
O'Brien, Tim, > (1946- ...) > Critique et interprétation.
O'Brien, Tim (Schriftsteller)
1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Literature and the war.
Post-traumatic stress disorder > United States.
War stories, American > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Soldiers in literature.
État de stress post-traumatique > États-Unis.
Récits de guerre américains > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Postmodernism (Literature)
Psychic trauma in literature
Soldiers in literature
War
War and literature
War stories, American
Vietnamkrieg
Vietnam-oorlog.
Posttraumatische stressstoornis.
Fictie.
Amerikaans.
Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975) > Récits personnels américains.
Traumatisme > Dans la littérature.
Soldats > Dans la littérature.
Postmodernisme et littérature > États-Unis.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xxvii, 344 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index.
ISBN:1587293285
9781587293283
0877457603
9780877457602

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