UID:
almafu_9959242607702883
Format:
1 online resource (281 p.)
ISBN:
0-7486-9409-9
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0-7486-9407-2
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1-4744-0079-5
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0-7486-9408-0
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-05975-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-4114-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9780748694082
