The nature of trauma in American novels /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Balaev, Michelle
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. Psychic trauma in literature. Memory in literature. Landscapes in literature.

Table of Contents:

Trauma theory and its discontents: the potentials of pluralism
The role of place in remembering: Lan Cao's Monkey bridge
The traumatized protagonist and mythic landscapes: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Wilderness, loss, and cultural contexts in Edward Abbey's Black sun
Neocolonialism and polluted places in Robert Barclay's Melal.