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

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Anna Thiemann

Rewriting the American Soul

Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination

Anna Thiemann

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English

Routledge
10 December 2019

Literary theory; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Medicine: general issues; Psychiatry; Trauma & shock

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

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. In doing so, it contributes to a new generation of trauma scholarship that challenges the dominant paradigm in literary and cultural studies. Moreover, the book intervenes in current debates about the relationship between literature and neuroscience insisting that the so-called neuronovel scrutinizes scientific developments and their political ramifications rather than adopting and translating them into aesthetic practices.

By: Anna Thiemann
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367886875
ISBN 10: 0367886871
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 10 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

To my parents. CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Re-Visioning Trauma 2. Posttraumatic Culture and the Repressed Memory of Freud 3. Memory and the Myth of Innocence: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001) 4. Resuming the Cold War Game: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007) 5. The Trauma of Self-Recognition: Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker (2006) 6. Life Writing and Black Counter-Memory: Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American (2008) 7. From Science to Archeology: Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005) 8. Cartographies of Diasporic Trauma: Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) 9. Conclusion: Forgetting Therapy and Trauma’s Ends Bibliography Index

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