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Rewriting the American Soul Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination

220 Pages

by Routledge

220 Pages

by Routledge

220 Pages

by Routledge

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Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna Thiemann connects cutting edge trauma theory with the historical context from which... Read more

To my parents.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Re-Visioning Trauma

2. Posttraumatic Culture and the Repressed Memory of Freud

3. Memory and the Myth of Innocence: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001)

4. Resuming the Cold War Game: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007)

5. The Trauma of Self-Recognition: Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker (2006)

6. Life Writing and Black Counter-Memory: Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American (2008)

7. From Science to Archeology: Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005)

8. Cartographies of Diasporic Trauma: Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)

9. Conclusion: Forgetting Therapy and Trauma’s Ends