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America's Disaster Culture - The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture (Hardcover)
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America's Disaster Culture - The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture (Hardcover)
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Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by
mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's
Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical
theory surrounding the culture of "natural" disasters in American
consumerism, literature, media, film, and popular culture. In a
hyper-mediated global culture, disaster events reach us with great
speed and minute detail, and Americans begin forming, interpreting,
and historicizing catastrophes simultaneously with fellow citizens
and people worldwide. America's Disaster Culture is not policy,
management, or relief oriented. It offers an analytical framework
for the cultural production and representation of disasters,
catastrophes, and apocalypses in American culture. It focuses on
filling a need for critical analysis centered upon the omnipresence
of real and imagined disasters, epidemics, and apocalypses in
American culture. However, it also observes events, such as the
Dust Bowl, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11, that are re-framed and
re-historicized as "natural" disasters by contemporary media and
pop culture. Therefore, America's Disaster Culture theorizes the
very parameters of classifying any event as a "natural" disaster,
addresses the biases involved in a catastrophic event's public
narrative, and analyzes American culture's consumption of a
disastrous event. Looking toward the future, what are the
hypothetical and actual threats to disaster culture? Or, are we
oblivious that we are currently living in a post-apocalyptic
landscape?
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