TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gibbs,Alan
TI  - Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
SN  - 9780748641147
AV  - PS374.P69 G53 2014
U1  - 813/.609353 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Psychic trauma in literature
KW  - Psychology in literature
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748694082?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748694082
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748694082/original
ER  -