News from the Front
News from the Front chronicles the experiences of narrator/protagonist Griffin Keeping, a former soldier and veteran of the Afghanistan War, following his return home to Newfoundland after his release from active duty. Keeping suffers from a fractured psyche as a result of Post Traumatic Stress Diso...
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| Format: | Master Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2011
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| Online Access: | https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/16 https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/context/etd/article/1015/viewcontent/pardyj.pdf |
| Summary: | News from the Front chronicles the experiences of narrator/protagonist Griffin Keeping, a former soldier and veteran of the Afghanistan War, following his return home to Newfoundland after his release from active duty. Keeping suffers from a fractured psyche as a result of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and struggles to reintegrate himself into society, alienated from his family and environment. The work includes elements of epistolary fiction, as letters from Keeping's great grandfather, a soldier of the First World Word, are interspersed throughout. The use of narrative disjunction reflects Keeping's psychic fragmentation. |
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