TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ronald Granofsky
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453910016
TI  - The Trauma Novel
T2  - Contemporary Symbolic Depictions of Collective Disaster
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1001-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054379
N2  - This study attempts to make sense of a group of novels that deal in a symbolic way with contemporary forms of collective disaster (the prospect of nuclear war, the Holocaust, environmental destruction). It shows similarities among British, American, Canadian and other novels never before grouped together and argues that they constitute a distinct sub-genre of fiction: the trauma novel. In so doing, the book sets forth an original theory about how literary symbolism functions as part of a cultural response to collective trauma.
KW  - Nuclear war, Holocaust, Literary symbolism, Environmental destruction, Collective disaster
LA  - English
ER  -