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Author Cavedon, Christina, author.

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

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 414 pages).
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Series Costerus, 0165-9618 ; new series, volume 212
Costerus ; new ser., v. 212.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 Tuché in Don DeLillo's pre-9/11 novels -- Falling man's escape into hyperreality -- Conclusion.
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Subject September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.
Melancholy -- Social aspects -- United States.
Melancholy -- Social aspects.
United States.
Melancholy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cavedon, Christina. Cultural melancholia. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015] 9789004305960 (OCoLC)917361339
ISBN 900430598X
9789004305984 (electronic book)
9789004305960