Mapping generations of traumatic memory in American narratives
By: edited by Dana Mihǎilescu, Roxana Oltean and Mihaela Precup
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781443856720
Subjects: Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Psychic trauma in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Literatur; Psychisches Trauma; American fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements -- (starting p. viii); title: Introduction -- (starting p. 1) -- pt. One; title: Legacies of Multidirectional Memories: From Pre-Holocaust to Postcolonial Traumas --; title: When the Holocaust Comes to Harlem: Traumatic Memory, Race, and Economic (In)Justice in American Holocaust Film -- (starting p. 8) / -- Danielle Christmas; title: Negotiating Traumas via Cross-Cultural Urban Identity Configurations out of Grief: Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project -- (starting p. 31) / -- Dana Mihailescu; title: "Stalintowns Aplenty": Totalitarian Cityscapes in Transatlantic Memory -- (starting p. 54) / -- Roxana Oltean; title: Cast in Stone: Generational Trauma and Self-Narration in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News -- (starting p. 79) / -- Anna Sajecki; title: Creating a Neo-Hoodoo Mythology: Past, Present, and Future in Ishmael Reed's Multidirectional Memory -- (starting p. 103) / -- Elisabeth Oyler -- pt. Two; title: Trauma, Lineage, and Transmission in Autobiography --; title: From "Angel of Mercy" to "Radical Muslim": Zeitoun's Story Travels -- (starting p. 130) / -- Kate Parker Horigan; title: Personal and Collective Traumas of Mutilation and James Ellroy's Los Angeles -- (starting p. 152) / -- Sostene M. Zangari; title: The After-Life of Images: Archives and Intergenerational Trauma in Autographic Comics -- (starting p. 171) / -- Golnar Nabizadeh; title: The Transgressive Mourner in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) and Blue Nights (2011), and Joyce Carol Oates's A Widow's Story (2011) -- (starting p. 192) / -- Mihaela Precup -- pt. Three; title: Commemorating Trauma, Shifting National Icons: Marginal and Mainstream Paths of Remembrance --; title: Contemporary War Memorials and the Urban Landscape: The Memorialization of Marginalized Groups in Washington D.C. -- (starting p. 212) / -- Emma Login; title: The Gendered Approach: Talking Trauma in National Monument Discourses -- (starting p. 245) / -- Liz Medoff; title: Prosthetic Memories of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infantile Paralysis as Narrative Embodiments for Traumatic American War Memory -- (starting p. 265) / -- Sara Polak -- pt. Four; title: 9/11 and the Canonization of Trauma --; title: Healing the Nation, Memorializing Trauma: Ground Zero and the Critique of Exceptionalism in the Recent American Novel -- (starting p. 286) / -- Rodica Mihaila; title: Writing Post-Traumatic Memories, Writing the City: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close -- (starting p. 300) / -- Audrey Bardizbanian; title: The Spectator-Survivor: United 93 as Memorial Cinema -- (starting p. 320) / -- Allison Whitney; title: Articulation and Evasion: Historical Trauma and Image in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close -- (starting p. 338) / -- Brittany Hirth; title: Gender and the Nostalgic Body in Post-9/11 Fiction: Claire Tristram's After and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist -- (starting p. 363) / -- Jenn Brandt; title: Contributors -- (starting p. 388); title: Index-- (starting p. 393)