Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War II

Publication Data

• Title Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War II
• Author Paul Crosthwaite
• Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Basingstoke
• Language English

Contents

War, trauma, postmodernism
Gravity's rainbow and traumatic models of history
"A secret code of pain and memory": traumatic repetition in the fiction of J.G. Ballard
Total war and the English stream-of-consciousness novel: from Mrs Dalloway to Mother London
Their fathers' war: negotiating the legacy of World War II in Prisoner's dilemma and Atonement.

Topics

• World War, 1939-1945 :: Literature and the war
• English fiction :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• American fiction :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• War in literature
• Psychic trauma in literature
• World War, 1939-1945 :: Psychological aspects
• War and literature :: Great Britain :: History :: 20th century
• War and literature :: United States :: History :: 20th century
• Postmodernism (Literature) :: Great Britain
• 014782581

Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War II by Paul Crosthwaite. ISBN 9780230202955. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.