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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.

Barker, Pat --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Barker, Pat, --- Barker, Pat - Criticism and interpretation.

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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.

Women and literature --- History --- Barker, Pat --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century --- Barker, Pat - Criticism and interpretation

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Deceptive Fictions: Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing explores the widespread narrative concern with trauma and violence, and their interactions with identity, meaning, ethics, history, memory and various other related issues in a selection of novels by prolific contemporary British and Irish writers. Interrogating the strategic functions of trauma and violence, the book argues that these texts can be read as counter-narratives to, or a backlash against, still-prevalent cr...

English fiction --- Violence in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- McEwan, Ian. --- Smith, Ali, --- Barker, Pat, --- McGregor, Jon, --- Enright, Anne,

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Biographical fiction, English --- World War, 1914-1918 --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Barker, Pat. --- Sassoon, Siegfried, --- Rivers, W. H. R. --- In literature. --- Biographical fiction, English - History and criticism. --- World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain - Literature and the war. --- Barker, Pat. - Regeneration. --- Sassoon, Siegfried, - 1886-1967 - In literature. --- Rivers, W. H. R. - (William Halse Rivers), - 1864-1922 - In literature. --- Sassoon, Siegfried, - 1886-1967 --- Rivers, W. H. R. - (William Halse Rivers), - 1864-1922

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Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within the academy almost exclusively by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. This collection celebrates the range and diversity of contemporary (post-1970) British women writers. It challenges misconceptions about the nature and scope of fiction by women writers working in Britain - commonly dismissed as parochial, insular, dreary and domestic - and seeks to expand conventional definitions of 'British' by exploring how issues of nationality intersect with gender, class, race and sexuality. Writers covered include Pat Barker, A.L. Kennedy, Maggie Gee, Rukhsana Ahmad, Joan Riley, Jennifer Johnston, Ellen Galford, Susan Hill, Fay Weldon, Emma Tennant, and Helen Fielding.

Sociology of literature --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Littérature anglaise --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature anglaise --- Femmes écrivains --- Kennedy, A.L. --- Barker, Pat --- Great Britain --- Fielding, Helen --- Ahmad, Rukhsana --- Johnston, Jennifer --- Gee, Maggie --- Riley, Joan --- English literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- English literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Race --- Literary genres --- Literature --- Nationalism --- Sexuality --- Writers --- Social class --- Book