TY  - GEN
T1  - Contemporary American trauma narratives
A1  - Gibbs, Alan, 1968-
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn887802555
AB  - 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.
OP  - 269
CN  - PS374.P69 G53 2014eb
SN  - 9780748694082
SN  - 0748694080
SN  - 0748694099
SN  - 9780748694099
SN  - 9780748641147
SN  - 0748641149
SN  - 9780748694075
SN  - 0748694072
SN  - 9781474400794
SN  - 1474400795
KW  - American fiction : 21st century : History and criticism.
KW  - Psychology in literature.
KW  - Psychic trauma in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : 21e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Psychologie dans la littérature.
KW  - Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
KW  - Literary theory.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Psychic trauma in literature
KW  - Psychology in literature
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -