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Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
Trauma has become an important and influential paradigm in, and for reading, contemporary American literature, and yet conventional critical interpretations of this phenomenon can be formulaic and cliche?d. Alan Gibbs breaks away from these conventional, heavily psychoanalytic, ways of understanding trauma. He looks at the impact of narratives with the perpetrator as protagonist, the so-called ‘perpetrator narratives’, their characteristics, and their impact.
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