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

ISBN-13: 9780415788243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 210 str.

Anna Thiemann

Opis

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.

O autorze

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