Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II

1. Introduction
Paul Crosthwaite

2. War, Trauma, Postmodernism
Paul Crosthwaite

3. Gravity’s Rainbow and Traumatic Models of History
Paul Crosthwaite

4. ‘A Secret Code of Pain and Memory’: Traumatic Repetition in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard
Paul Crosthwaite

5. Total War and the English Stream-of-Consciousness Novel: From Mrs Dalloway to Mother London
Paul Crosthwaite

6. Their Fathers’ War: Negotiating the Legacy of World War II in Prisoner’s Dilemma and Atonement
Paul Crosthwaite

7. Conclusion: Writing/Reading World War II After 9/11
Paul Crosthwaite

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Fiction, European History, Cultural Studies, History of World War II and the Holocaust