Contemporary American trauma narratives / / Alan Gibbs

• Autore: Gibbs Alan <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.609353
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism; Psychology in literature; Psychic trauma in literature
• Classificazione: HU 1819
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. </P
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary American trauma narratives
• ISBN: 0-7486-9409-9; 0-7486-9407-2; 1-4744-0079-5; 0-7486-9408-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786753603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II