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