Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
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Literary Studies
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- ISBN 9780748641147
- Weight: 469g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2014
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Examines the representation of trauma in contemporary American fiction and non-fiction
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. Contemporary American authors who are discussed in depth include Carol Shields, Toni Morrison, Tim O’Brien, Mark Danielewski, Art Spiegelman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anthony Swofford, Evan Wright, Paul Auster, Philip Roth, and Michael Chabon. Contemporary American Trauma Narratives offers a timely and dissenting intervention into debates about American writers’ depiction of trauma and its after-effects.
Alan Gibbs is a Lecturer in American Literature at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Contemporary American Trauma Narratives (2014), which won the 2015 Irish Association for American Studies Peggy O'Brien Book Prize, and several articles on both trauma and naturalism in contemporary American culture.
