Cultural melancholia : : US trauma discourses before and after 9/11 / / by Christina Cavedon.
In Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 , Christina Cavedon frames her examination of 9/11 fiction, especially Jay McInerney’s The Good Life and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man , with a thorough discussion of what US reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 disc...
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| Superior document: | Costerus New Series, Volume 212 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus ;
Volume 212. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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| Summary: | In Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 , Christina Cavedon frames her examination of 9/11 fiction, especially Jay McInerney’s The Good Life and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man , with a thorough discussion of what US reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 disclose about American culture. Offering a comparative reading of pre- and post-9/11 literary, public, and academic discourses, she deconstructs the still commonly held belief that cultural repercussions of the attacks primarily testify to a cultural trauma in the wake of the collectively witnessed media event. She innovatively re-interprets discourses to be symptomatic of a malaise which had afflicted American culture already prior to 9/11 and can best be approached with melancholia as an analytical concept. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 900430598X |
| ISSN: | 0165-9618 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Christina Cavedon. |