The Nature of Trauma in American Novels
ISBN: 9780810166059
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Northwestern University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Psychic trauma in literature; Memory in literature; Landscapes in literature;

In The Nature of Trauma in the American Novel , Michelle Balaev undertakes an ambitious rethinking of the foundations, implementations, and new possibilities of literary trauma theory.


MICHELLE BALAEV is a visiting assistant professor of English at Wake Forest University.
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