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

Author:   Anna Thiemann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415788243


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Rewriting the American Soul: Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination


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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 it emerged and shows that contemporary novels encourage us to reflect critically on the cultural meanings and political uses of trauma. In doing so, it contributes to a new generation of trauma scholarship that challenges the dominant paradigm in literary and cultural studies. Moreover, the book intervenes in current debates about the relationship between literature and neuroscience insisting that the so-called neuronovel scrutinizes scientific developments and their political ramifications rather than adopting and translating them into aesthetic practices.

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Author:   Anna Thiemann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780415788243


ISBN 10:   0415788242
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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 Bibliography Index

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Anna Thiemann is assistant professor of English at the University of Muenster, Germany.

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