Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Costerus New Series, 212
Release date:	August 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Christina Cavedon
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	414
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-30596-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Promotions
LSN:	90-04-30596-3
Barcode:	9789004305960

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