Alan Gibbs

Contemporary American Trauma Narratives (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the representation of trauma in contemporary American fiction and non-fictionThis 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748694082
• Artikelnr.: 43668201

Autorenporträt

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.