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Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (Hardcover, New)
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Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (Hardcover, New)
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Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker brings together an
international roster of scholars who pay detailed attention to the
work and career of this prizewinning British writer, providing
critical insight into each of her nine novels, from Union Street
(1982) through the Regeneration trilogy (1991-95) to Double Vision
(2003). The eighteen essays in the volume are organized into five
sections: ""Writing Working-Class Women,"" ""Dialogue under
Pressure,"" ""Men at War,"" ""The Talking Cure,"" and
""Regenerating the Wasteland."" Taken individually, each of the
essays yields a variety of insights into Barker's fictions; taken
as a whole, the collection provides a fresh and timely overview of
Barker's oeuvre and her creative exploration of society. The volume
probes Barker's keenly historicized and yet topical preoccupations:
the social and psychological ramifications of planned violence in
war and random violence in British villages and cities, and the
comforts and tensions in relationships, whether between men in war,
women in postindustrial cities, or men and women in sex and
marriage. The volume also dissects Barker's unflinching gaze on
class, sex, murder, and psychosis, and her provocative and
emotionally moving images. It includes an interview with the
novelist, incorporates her observations on writing her most recent
novel, Double Vision, in the aftermath of wars in Bosnia and Iraq,
and explores the film adaptation of Regeneration. The volume also
presents Sarah Daniels's dramatic adaptation of Barker's novel Blow
Your House Down, which has been staged but has not previously
appeared in print.
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