Chronicling trauma
Subtitle: journalists and writers on violence and loss
By: Doug Underwood
Series: The history of communication
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana, Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780252036408
Subjects: Mental health; Psychic trauma; War correspondents; Violence in literature; Press coverage; American Authors; Violence; Psychic trauma in literature; Psychology; Journalism and literature; Biography; Journalists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Trauma, news, and narrative: the study of violence and loss in journalism and fiction; title: Stories of harm, stories of hazard: childhood stress and professional trauma in the careers of journalist-literary figures; title: Trafficking in trauma: women's rights, civil rights, and sensationalism as a spur to social justice; title: Trauma in war, trauma in life: the pose of the "heroic" battlefield correspondent; title: Depression, drink, and dissipation: dysfunctional lifestyles and  art as the ultimate stimulant; title: Epilogue. New challenges, new treatments: trauma and the contemporary journalist-literary figure.