Rewriting the American soul : trauma, neuroscience and the contemporary literary imagination / Anna Thiemann.

Author
Thiemann, Anna [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
210 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : Re-Visioning Trauma
    • Posttraumatic Culture and the Repressed Memory of Freud
    • Memory and the Myth of Innocence : Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (2001)
    • Resuming the Cold War Game : Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007)
    • The Trauma of Self-Recognition : Richard Powers's The Echo Maker (2006)
    • Life Writing and Black Counter-Memory : Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American (2008)
    • From Science to Archeology : Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005)
    • Cartographies of Diasporic Trauma : Teju Cole's Open City (2011)
    • Conclusion : Forgetting Therapy and Trauma's Ends.
    ISBN
    • 9780415788243 ((hardback))
    • 0415788242 ((hardback))
    OCLC
    975368552
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