Rewriting the American Soul: Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
Author:   Anna Thiemann (University of Munster)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415788243


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Anna Thiemann (University of Munster)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780415788243


ISBN 10:   0415788242
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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

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