Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives 1st Edition by Dana Mihăilescu 144385672X 9781443856720

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ISBN 10: 144385672X 

ISBN 13: 9781443856720

Author: Dana Mihăilescu

 

This volume collects work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are interested in examining the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the contemporary United States. The contributors depart from the interpretation of trauma as a unique exceptional event that shatters all systems of representation, as seen in the writing of early trauma theorists like Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, and Dominick LaCapra. Rather, the chapters in this collection are in conversation with more recent readings of trauma such as Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” (2009), the role of mediation and remediation in the dynamics of cultural memory (Astrid Erll, 2012; Aleida Assman, 2011), and Stef Craps’ focus on “postcolonial witnessing” and its cross-cultural dimension (2013).

The corpus of post-traumatic narratives under discussion includes fiction, diaries, memoirs, films, visual narratives, and oral testimonies. A complicated dialogue between various and sometimes conflicting narratives is thus generated and examined along four main lines in this volume: trauma in the context of “multidirectional memory”; the representation of trauma in autobiographical texts; the dynamic of public forms of national commemoration; and the problematic instantiation of 9/11 as a traumatic landmark.

Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives 1st Table of contents:

Part One

When the Holocaust Comes to Harlem

Negotiating Traumas via Cross-Cultural Urban Identity

Configurations Out of Grief

“Stalintowns Aplenty”

Cast in Stone

Creating a Neo-Hoodoo Mythology

Part Two

From “Angel of Mercy” to “Radical Muslim”

Personal and Collective Traumas of Mutilation and James Ellroy’s Los Angeles

The After-Life of Images

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)

Part Three

Contemporary War Memorials and the Urban Landscape: The Gendered Approach

Prosthetic Memories of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Infantile Paralysis as Narrative Embodiments for Traumatic American War Memory

Part Four

Healing the Nation, Memorializing Trauma

Writing Post-Traumatic Memories, Writing the City

The Spectator-Survivor

Articulation and Evasion

Gender and the Nostalgic Body in Post-9/11 Fiction

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