{"product_id":"cultural-melancholia-us-trauma-discourses-before-and-after-9-11-9789004305960","title":"Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9\/11","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9\/11, Christina Cavedon frames her examination of 9\/11 fiction, especially Jay McInerney’s The Good Life and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, with a thorough discussion of what US reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 disclose about American culture. Offering a comparative reading of pre- and post-9\/11 literary, public, and academic discourses, she deconstructs the still commonly held belief that cultural repercussions of the attacks primarily testify to a cultural trauma in the wake of the collectively witnessed media event. She innovatively re-interprets discourses to be symptomatic of a malaise which had afflicted American culture already prior to 9\/11 and can best be approached with melancholia as an analytical concept.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS\t  INTRODUCTION\t  CHAPTER 1 THEORIZATIONS OF MELANCHOLIA\t  CHAPTER 2\t TRAUMA STUDIES IN THE MEDICO-PSYCHIATRIC FIELD\t  CHAPTER 3\t THEORIZATIONS OF CULTURAL TRAUMA IN RELATION TO CULTURAL MELANCHOLIA  CHAPTER 4\t CULTURAL NARRATIVES ACTIVATED BY THE 9\/11 ATTACKS  CHAPTER 5\t WHITE MIDDLE CLASS MELANCHOLIA IN JAY MCINERNEY’S FICTION  CHAPTER 6\t POSTMODERN MELANCHOLIA AND THE FANTASY OF THE TUCHÉ IN DON DELILLO’S PRE-9\/11 NOVELS  CHAPTER 7 FALLING MAN’S ESCAPE INTO HYPERREALITY  CONCLUSION\t  INDEX","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210677608791,"sku":"9789004305960","price":140.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultural-melancholia-us-trauma-discourses-before-and-after-9-11-9789004305960","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}