Anna Thiemann

Rewriting the American Soul

Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna Thiemann connects cutting edge trauma

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367886875
• ISBN-10: 0367886871
• Artikelnr.: 58482548

Autorenporträt

Anna Thiemann is assistant professor of English at the University of Muenster, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

To my parents.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Re-Visioning Trauma
2. Posttraumatic Culture and the Repressed Memory of Freud
3. Memory and the Myth of Innocence: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
(2001)
4. Resuming the Cold War Game: Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007)
5. The Trauma of Self-Recognition: Richard Powers's The Echo Maker (2006)
6. Life Writing and Black Counter-Memory: Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an
American (2008)
7. From Science to Archeology: Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005)
8. Cartographies of Diasporic Trauma: Teju Cole's Open City (2011)
9. Conclusion: Forgetting Therapy and Trauma's Ends
Bibliography
Index