Introduction: The Trauma Paradigm and Its Discontents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: The Trauma Paradigm and Its Discontents 1
5. 1. Twentieth-Century Trauma Narratives: Some Paradigmatic Texts 45
6. 2. Traumatic Metafiction and Ontological Crisis 85
7. 3. 9/11, Collective Trauma, and Postmodernist Responses 117
8. 4. Gulf War Memoirs and Perpetrator Trauma 161
9. 5. It Could Happen Here: Trauma and Contemporary American Counterfactuals 201
10. Conclusion 240
11. Bibliography 248
12. Index 264