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