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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 '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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748694082 0748694080 0748694099 9780748694099 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
