Trauma Studies and Literature

Trauma Studies and Literature

Martin Amis's Time's Arrow as Trauma Fiction

by Valentina Adami

115 pages· 2008· ISBN 9783631577967
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Starting from an interdisciplinary theoretical investigation of trauma, the book analyzes the relationship between Trauma Studies and literature. In particular, it focuses on Martin Amis's novel <I>Time's Arrow, where the breakdown of chronology, coherence and predictability mimics the collapse of temporality and the crisis of truth caused by trauma in the individual's mind. Amis's novel reproduces the shocking force of trauma through a shocking narrative form in order to avoid indifference and favour an empathetic and ethically committed reaction on the part of readers. For these reasons, <I>Time's Arrow represents a significant example of trauma fiction.

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