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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mihăilescu, Dana, editor.

Oltean, Roxana, editor.

Precup, Mihaela, editor.

Brown, Adam, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder--United States--Hstory.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Psychic trauma--United States.

Psychic trauma.

Collective memory--United States.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ...

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 27, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6162-6

OCLC:

881747684