Contemporary American Trauma Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780748641147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 280 str.

Alan Gibbs

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.