Contemporary American Trauma Narratives /
Gibbs, Alan
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives / Alan Gibbs. - 1 online resource (280 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Trauma Paradigm and Its Discontents -- 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
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Winner of the 2015 Irish Association for American Studies Peggy O'Brien Book PrizeExamines the representation of trauma in contemporary American fiction and non-fictionThis 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748641147 9780748694082
10.1515/9780748694082 doi
2014431362
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PS374.P69 / G53 2014
813/.609353
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives / Alan Gibbs. - 1 online resource (280 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Trauma Paradigm and Its Discontents -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Winner of the 2015 Irish Association for American Studies Peggy O'Brien Book PrizeExamines the representation of trauma in contemporary American fiction and non-fictionThis 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748641147 9780748694082
10.1515/9780748694082 doi
2014431362
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PS374.P69 / G53 2014
813/.609353