Language, experience, and the 'traumatic gap': How to talk about 9/11?

Health Illness and Culture: Broken Narratives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 16-35

  Brockmeier, Jens ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203894309     Document Type: Chapter

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