Re-creating the split self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace -- Fear and commodification in the shaping of America in Toni Morrison's Paradise and A Mercy -- Obsessions and possessions in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom! -- The traumas of love and death in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body -- Trauma, gender, and commodification in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Invisible Monsters.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Psychic trauma in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Psychology in literature. Modernism (Literature) English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century