Roth and trauma
Subtitle: the problem of history in the later works (1995-2010)
By: Aimee Pozorski
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781441185112
Subjects: Psychic trauma in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Roth and trauma: the problem of history in the later works; title: "I pledge a legion to the flag": Drenka Balich's malapropisms and the traumatic sublime of the flag; title: American pastoral and the traumatic ideals of democracy; title: "The stars are indispensable": trauma, betrayal, and celebrity in I married a communist; title: Founding traumas: Vietnam, infanticide and The Iliad in the human stain; title: Terror, trauma, and "the mockery of armageddon": the dying animal in the new millennium; title: Traumatic realism, "afterwardsness" and the figure of the child in the plot against America; title: Exit ghost: mourning Zuckerman in the age of terror; title: "The gravest meaning": trauma and the tetralogy of the grave.