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Mapping generations of traumatic memory in American narratives / / edited by Dana Mihailescu, Roxana Oltean and Mihaela Precup ; contributors Adam Brown [and seventeen others]



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Titolo: Mapping generations of traumatic memory in American narratives / / edited by Dana Mihailescu, Roxana Oltean and Mihaela Precup ; contributors Adam Brown [and seventeen others] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
Disciplina: 616.8521
Soggetto topico: Post-traumatic stress disorder - United States - Hstory
Psychic trauma - United States
Collective memory - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): MihăilescuDana
OlteanRoxana
PrecupMihaela
BrownAdam
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; WHEN THE HOLOCAUST COMES TO HARLEM; NEGOTIATING TRAUMASVIA CROSS-CULTURAL URBAN IDENTITYCONFIGURATIONS OUT OF GRIEF; "STALINTOWNS APLENTY"; CAST IN STONE; CREATING A NEO-HOODOOMYTHOLOGY; PART TWO; FROM "ANGEL OF MERCY"TO "RADICALMUSLIM"; PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMASOFMUTILATION AND JAMES ELLROY'SLOS ANGELES; THE AFTER-LIFE OF IMAGES; THE TRANSGRESSIVE MOURNERIN JOAN DIDION'S THE YEAR OF MAGICALTHINKING (2005) AND BLUE NIGHTS (2011),AND JOYCE CAROL OATES'SAWIDOW'S STORY (2011); PART THREE
CONTEMPORARY WARMEMORIALSAND THE URBAN LANDSCAPETHE GENDERED APPROACH; PROSTHETICMEMORIESOF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S INFANTILEPARALYSIS AS NARRATIVE EMBODIMENTSFOR TRAUMATIC AMERICANWARMEMORY; PART FOUR; HEALING THE NATION,MEMORIALIZING TRAUMA; WRITING POST-TRAUMATIC MEMORIES,WRITING THE CITY; THE SPECTATOR-SURVIVOR; ARTICULATION AND EVASION; GENDER AND THE NOSTALGIC BODYIN POST-9/11 FICTION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: This volume collects work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are interested in examining the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the contemporary United States. The contributors depart from the interpretation of trauma as a unique exceptional event that shatters all systems of representation, as seen in the writing of early trauma theorists like Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, and Dominick LaCapra. Rather, the chapters in this collection are ...
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ISBN: 1-4438-6162-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464671703321
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