Rewriting the Past: Gerard Mannix Flynn’s Nothing to Say and James X

If, as Anne Whitehead suggests, the term ‘trauma fiction’ represents a paradox, that violence resists containment through language, then writers who engage and attempt to represent traumatic events in their work can never fully render the horror of trauma through their writing. Yet artists such as G...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Victoria Connor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies 2016-07-01
Series:Review of Irish Studies in Europe
Online Access:http://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/article/view/1264/1018