Reading trauma narratives /Laurie Vickroy.

Vickroy, Laurie, 1954-

Reading trauma narratives /Laurie Vickroy. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies 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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American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Psychic trauma in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Psychology in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic Books.

PS374 / .R433 2015