Contemporary American trauma narratives /
Winner of the 2015 Irish Association for American Studies Peggy O'Brien Book Prize. Examines the representation of trauma in contemporary American fiction and non-fiction. This book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as ...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2014]
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b43j |
| Sumari: | Winner of the 2015 Irish Association for American Studies Peggy O'Brien Book Prize. Examines the representation of trauma in contemporary American fiction and non-fiction. This book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as 'metafiction', as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the Iraq War, and reactions to the Bush administration. Contemporary American authors who are discussed in depth include Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Tim O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, Mark Danielewski, Art Spiegelman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anthony Swofford, Evan Wright, Paul Auster, Philip Roth and Michael Chabon. Contemporary American Trauma Narratives offers a timely and dissenting intervention into debates about American writers' depiction of trauma and its after-effects. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (vii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748694082 0748694080 0748694099 9780748694099 9780748641147 0748641149 9780748694075 0748694072 9781474400794 1474400795 |