02527nam 2200637 450 991078675360332120230803204436.00-7486-9409-90-7486-9407-21-4744-0079-50-7486-9408-010.1515/9780748694082(CKB)3710000000222421(EBL)1767559(SSID)ssj0001332659(PQKBManifestationID)12563321(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001332659(PQKBWorkID)11376800(PQKB)10553709(StDuBDS)EDZ0000985589(MiAaPQ)EBC1767559(DE-B1597)614598(DE-B1597)9780748694082(EXLCZ)99371000000022242120140829h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary American trauma narratives /Alan GibbsEdinburgh, Scotland :Edinburgh University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-05975-6 0-7486-4114-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Title page; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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; IndexThis 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. </PAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismPsychology in literaturePsychic trauma in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Psychology in literature.Psychic trauma in literature.813.609353HU 1819rvkGibbs Alan1968-1491853MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786753603321Contemporary American trauma narratives3713921UNINA