Foreword

ix

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction: Social Representation and the Question of Reality

1

Chapter 1: Caging or Community? The “Working Class” Novels

15

Chapter 2: Seeking “Normality” in a World of Fictions: The Man Who Wasn't There

43

Chapter 3: Heroic Masculinity and the Enemy Within: The Regeneration Trilogy

57

Chapter 4: The Family, Constructed Reality, and Collective Traumatic Memory: Another World

93

Chapter 5: “I believed my own story:” Composite Identity and Traumatic Memory in Border Crossing

113

Chapter 6: Social Representation and the Mediation of Reality: Double Vision.

131

Chapter 7: The “fear of being irrelevant” in a Time of War: Representing Self and Other in Life Class

149