A Bruise upon a Bruise: Forms and Traces of Violence in Graham Swift’s 'Out of This World' and 'Waterland'
Journal: Linguaculture
Year: 2011

While lacking the physical explicitness of other contemporary British novels, Graham Swift’s texts are at least of equal interest in terms of the attention paid to the numerous face(t)s of violence, as well as to the deep if not always detectable marks imprinted on the victims. The centrality of the terrorist bomb attack to the plot of Out of This World singles out Swift’s fourth novel for special attention as regards the idea of violence and even a superficial reading yields ample material, fro