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CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN TRAUMA NARRAT
Alan Gibbs
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Description for CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN TRAUMA NARRAT
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
362g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748694075
SKU
V9780748694075
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About Alan Gibbs
Alan Gibbs is Lecturer in English (American) Literature at University College Cork.
Reviews for CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN TRAUMA NARRAT
(A)n impressive survey of trauma narratives of diverse formal, generic, and stylistic qualities, whose main concern is to study literary representations of traumatic historical events in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. -Agata Preis-Smith, University of Warsaw, Polish Journal for American Studies, Vol 9