Cultural melancholia :
Cavedon, Christina,
Cultural melancholia : US trauma discourses before and after 9/11 / by Christina Cavedon. - 1 online resource (x, 414 pages) - Costerus, new series, volume 212 0165-9618 ; . - Costerus ; new ser., v. 212. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Tuch�e in Don DeLillo's pre-9/11 novels -- Falling man's escape into hyperreality -- Conclusion.
Applying melancholia as an analytical concept, Christina Cavedon's Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 discusses novels by Jay McInerney and Don DeLillo in light of an American cultural malaise pre-dating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
900430598X 9789004305984
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
Melancholy--Social aspects--United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Melancholy--Social aspects.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.
United States.
Electronic books.
PS3554 / .C38 2015 PS374.S445
813.60935873931
Cultural melancholia : US trauma discourses before and after 9/11 / by Christina Cavedon. - 1 online resource (x, 414 pages) - Costerus, new series, volume 212 0165-9618 ; . - Costerus ; new ser., v. 212. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Tuch�e in Don DeLillo's pre-9/11 novels -- Falling man's escape into hyperreality -- Conclusion.
Applying melancholia as an analytical concept, Christina Cavedon's Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 discusses novels by Jay McInerney and Don DeLillo in light of an American cultural malaise pre-dating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
900430598X 9789004305984
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
Melancholy--Social aspects--United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Melancholy--Social aspects.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.
United States.
Electronic books.
PS3554 / .C38 2015 PS374.S445
813.60935873931