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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Kaituhi matua: Gibbs, Alan, 1968- (Author)
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
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I whakaputaina: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2014]
Urunga tuihono:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b43j
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • 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.