E Ann Kaplan

Trauma Culture

The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

In Trauma Culture, E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations. Arguing that humans possess a need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the forms that are used to bridge the experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780813535913
• ISBN-10: 0813535913
• Artikelnr.: 21377737

Autorenporträt

E. Ann Kaplan is a professor of English, SUNY at Stony Brook, where she also founded and directs the Humanities Institute. She was recently the president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : 9/11 and "disturbing remains"
"Why trauma now?" : Freud and trauma studies
Memory as testimony in World War II : Freud, Duras, and Kofman
Melodrama and trauma : displacement in Hitchcock's Spellbound
Vicarious trauma and "empty" empathy : media images of Rwanda and the Iraq
War
"Translating" trauma in postcolonial contexts : indigeneity on film
The ethics of witnessing : Maya Deren and Tracey Moffatt
Epilogue : "Wounded New York" : rebuilding and memorials to 9/11