Trauma Fiction
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Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7964167M
- ISBN-139780748618576
- ISBN-100748618570
- OCLC Control Number801848909
- OCLC Control Number55958987
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Numbertraumafiction0000whit
- Goodreads2172532
Classifications
- LCCPN3503
Description
This text focuses on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides readings of texts by Pat Barker Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W.G. Sebald and Benjamin Wilkomirski.
First Sentence
The term 'trauma fiction' represents a paradox or contradiction: if trauma comprises an event or experience which overwhelms the individual and resists language or representation, how then can it be narrativised in fiction?
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