LEADER 02527nam 2200637 450 001 9910786753603321 005 20230803204436.0 010 $a0-7486-9409-9 010 $a0-7486-9407-2 010 $a1-4744-0079-5 010 $a0-7486-9408-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748694082 035 $a(CKB)3710000000222421 035 $a(EBL)1767559 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001332659 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12563321 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001332659 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11376800 035 $a(PQKB)10553709 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000985589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1767559 035 $a(DE-B1597)614598 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748694082 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000222421 100 $a20140829h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContemporary American trauma narratives /$fAlan Gibbs 210 1$aEdinburgh, Scotland :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-05975-6 311 $a0-7486-4114-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle 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; Index 330 $aThis 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.