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Author:

Vickroy, Laurie, 1954- author.

Title:

Reading trauma narratives : the contemporary novel & the psychology of oppression / Laurie Vickroy.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xv, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Psychology in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction.
Canadian fiction.
English fiction.
Modernism (Literature)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychology in literature.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0813937388
9780813937380
081393737X
9780813937373

OCLC:

(OCoLC)911240373

LCCN:

2015016448

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)