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 |
Taula de continguts:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Twentieth-Century Trauma Narratives: Some Paradigmatic Texts; 2. Traumatic Metafiction and Ontological Crisis; 3. 9/11, Collective Trauma, and Postmodernist Responses; 4. Gulf War Memoirs and Perpetrator Trauma; 5. It Could Happen Here: Trauma and Contemporary American Counterfactuals; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.