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Reading trauma narratives / Laurie Vickroy.

By: Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015Description: xv, 198 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813937373 (cloth : acidfree paper)
  • 9780813937380 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.509353 23
LOC classification:
  • PS374.P69 V53 2015
Contents:
Re-creating the split self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace -- Fear and commodification in the shaping of America in Toni Morrison's Paradise and A Mercy -- Obsessions and possessions in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom! -- The traumas of love and death in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body -- Trauma, gender, and commodification in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Invisible Monsters.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Re-creating the split self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace -- Fear and commodification in the shaping of America in Toni Morrison's Paradise and A Mercy -- Obsessions and possessions in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom! -- The traumas of love and death in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body -- Trauma, gender, and commodification in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Invisible Monsters.

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