| Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 Contributor(s): Cavedon (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004305963 ISBN-13: 9789004305960 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $167.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810 |
| Series: Costerus New |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (1.75 lbs) 424 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |