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OverviewRewriting 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 theory with the historical context from which it emerged and shows that contemporary novels encourage us to reflect critically on the cultural meanings and political uses of trauma. In doing so, it contributes to a new generation of trauma scholarship that challenges the dominant paradigm in literary and cultural studies. Moreover, the book intervenes in current debates about the relationship between literature and neuroscience insisting that the so-called neuronovel scrutinizes scientific developments and their political ramifications rather than adopting and translating them into aesthetic practices. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anna ThiemannPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367886875ISBN 10: 0367886871 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 10 December 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTo 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationAnna Thiemann is assistant professor of English at the University of Muenster, Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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