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Contemporary American trauma narratives / Alan Gibbs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbs, Alan, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Psychology in literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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. </P
- Contents:
- Title page; Imprint; Contents; 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780748694099
- 0748694099
- 9780748694075
- 0748694072
- 9781474400794
- 1474400795
- 9780748694082
- 0748694080
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