Rewriting the American soul : trauma, neuroscience and the contemporary literary imagination / Anna Thiemann.
Thiemann, Anna| Call Number | 809.93353 T433 |
| Author | Thiemann, Anna, author. |
| Title | Rewriting the American soul : trauma, neuroscience and the contemporary literary imagination / Anna Thiemann. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Series | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 82 |
| Contents | chapter 1 Introduction: Re-Visioning Trauma -- chapter 2 Posttraumatic Culture and the Repressed Memory of Freud -- chapter 3 Memory and the Myth of Innocence: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001) -- chapter 4 Resuming the Cold War Game: Don DeLillo’s / chapter 5 The Trauma of Self-Recognition: Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker (2006) -- chapter 6 Life Writing and Black Counter-Memory: Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American (2008) -- chapter 7 From Science to Archeology: Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) -- chapter 8 Cartographies of Diasporic Trauma: Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) -- chapter 9 Conclusion: Forgetting Therapy and Trauma’s Ends. |
| Summary | "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 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. "--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject | PSYCHIC TRAUMA IN LITERATURE. Psychology in literature. |
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| Summary | "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 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. "--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents | chapter 1 Introduction: Re-Visioning Trauma -- chapter 2 Posttraumatic Culture and the Repressed Memory of Freud -- chapter 3 Memory and the Myth of Innocence: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001) -- chapter 4 Resuming the Cold War Game: Don DeLillo’s / chapter 5 The Trauma of Self-Recognition: Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker (2006) -- chapter 6 Life Writing and Black Counter-Memory: Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American (2008) -- chapter 7 From Science to Archeology: Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) -- chapter 8 Cartographies of Diasporic Trauma: Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) -- chapter 9 Conclusion: Forgetting Therapy and Trauma’s Ends. |
| Subject | PSYCHIC TRAUMA IN LITERATURE. Psychology in literature. |
| Multimedia |