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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Theorizations of Melancholia
- Trauma Studies in The Medico-Psychiatric Field
- Theorizations of Cultural Trauma in Relation to Cultural Melancholia
- Cultural Narratives Activated by the 9/11 Attacks
- White Middle Class Melancholia in Jay Mcinerney’s Fiction
- Postmodern Melancholia and the Fantasy of the Tuché in Don Delillo’s Pre-9/11 Novels
- Falling Man’s Escape into Hyperreality
- Conclusion
- Index.