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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alan Gibbs is Lecturer in English (American) Literature at University College Cork. He has published over a dozen journal articles on subjects including Roth and Steinbeck, was the guest editor for a 115-page special edition of 'The Journal of the Short Story in English' devoted to the work of Henry Roth, and is the author of Henry Roth's Mercy of a Rude Stream (1994-98): The Second Career of an American Novelist (Mellen Press 2008).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part 1. Traumatic Forms 1. 'Classical' American Trauma Narratives 2. Traumatic Metafiction and the Inscribed Narrator Part 2: Traumatic Themes 3. 9/11 and the Postmodernists' Response 4. The Iraq Wars: Testimony, Perpetrators and Adaptation 5. The Bush Administration and Counterfactual Histories Conclusion.
Introduction Part 1. Traumatic Forms 1. 'Classical' American Trauma Narratives 2. Traumatic Metafiction and the Inscribed Narrator Part 2: Traumatic Themes 3. 9/11 and the Postmodernists' Response 4. The Iraq Wars: Testimony, Perpetrators and Adaptation 5. The Bush Administration and Counterfactual Histories Conclusion.
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