Fractured Bodies and Social Wounds: The Simulation of Trauma in J.G. Ballard’s Crash
J.G. Ballard’s sci-fi novel Crash is a powerful – albeit highly controversial – depiction of man’s destiny in late industrial culture, “the destiny of [his] human body in a world of automotive disaster” and proliferating technology (Youngquist). It traumatically “crashes” the boundaries between bodi...
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University of Edinburgh
2009-06-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/616 |