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Whitehead Anne <1971-> |
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Trauma fiction / / Anne Whitehead |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2004] |
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©2004 |
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0-7486-5172-1 |
0-7486-6601-X |
0-7486-7981-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 184 p.) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Theme -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 1. The past as revenant: trauma and haunting in Pat Barker's Another Worl -- Chapter 2. Telling tales: trauma and testimony in Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments -- Chapter 3. 'Ground that will remember you': trauma and landscape in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces -- Part II. Style -- Introduction to Part II T -- Chapter 4. Othello in the ghetto: trauma and intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood -- Chapter 5. The butterfly man: trauma and repetition in the writing of W. G. Sebald -- Chapter 6. Recomposing the past: trauma and improvisation in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Jackie Kay's Trumpet -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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This text focuses on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides readings of texts by Pat Barker Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W.G. Sebald and Benjamin Wilkomirski. |
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