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This book provides a comprehensive account and critical analysis of the literary career of Pat Barker. It offers readings of Barker's innovations in narrative form, her revisionist perspectives on history, class and gender, and her preoccupation with themes of trauma, haunting and terror. It also analyses the reasons for her success and significance as a novelist. The chapters draw on contemporary theories of critical realism, gender and social identities, memory and narrative, in order to outline the debates with which Barker's work has consistently engaged.
Brannigan argues that Barker is one of the most important writers in modern English literary history. She is principally renowned and widely acclaimed for her 'Regeneration' trilogy, the last volume of which, 'The Ghost Road', won the Booker Prize in 1995. In recent novels, Barker has continued to deal with controversial and shocking themes, including child murderers and the meanings of 'terror' in the contemporary world.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
CHRONOLOGY
1 Critical and cultural contexts
2 Small worlds: 'Union Street'
3 Whoever fights monsters: 'Blow Your House Down'
4 Telling stories: 'The Century’s Daughter' ('Liza’s England')
5 Searching for heroes: 'The Man Who Wasn’t There'
6 History and haunting: 'The Regeneration Trilogy'
7 The return of history: 'Another World'
8 Redemption: 'Border Crossing' and 'Double Vision'
9 Critical overview and conclusion
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX