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Cultural melancholia : US trauma discourses before and after 9/11 / by Christina Cavedon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Costerus ; new ser., v. 212.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 414 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 900430598X
  • 9789004305984
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural melancholia.DDC classification:
  • 813.60935873931 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3554 .C38 2015
  • PS374.S445
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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