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Contemporary American trauma narratives

By Alan , Gibbs

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0748641149, 978-0-7486-4114-7, 978-0-7486-9407-5, 0748694072, 978-0-7486-9408-2, 978-0-7486-9409-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1153916 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
269\281
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and cr

Description

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. Contemporary American authors who are discussed in depth include Carol Shields, Toni Morrison, Tim O'Brien, 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

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