Ten years after Katrina : critical perspectives of the storm's effect on American culture and identity /
This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it. <br /> <br />
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I TESTIMONY
- 1. Disaster's Ethics of Literature: Voicing Katrina's Stories in a Digital Age / Joseph Donica
- 2. Dramatic "Belated Immediacy" in John Biguenet's Rising Water Trilogy / Daisy Pignetti
- 3. "The Storm": Spatial Discourses and Katrina Narratives in David Simon's Treme (2010
- 2013) / Michael Samuel
- 4. Shattered Reflections: One D.O.A., One on the Way, Short-Short Stories and Enacting Trauma / Laura Tansley
- 5. Bearing Witness to the Dispossessed: Natasha Tretheway's Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast / Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza
- 6. Subversive Interpellation: Voices of Protest Out of "the storm called ... America" / Glenn Jellenik
- pt. II CULTURAL IDENTITY
- 7. Katrina Stories Get Graphic in A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge / Kate Parker Horigan
- 8. Displacement and Dispossession: The Plantation Regime as a Disaster Discourse in Rosalyn Story's Wading Home (2010) / Florian Freitag.
- 9. Dave Eggers' Zeitoun and Katrina's Southern Biopolitics / Christopher Lloyd
- 10. Katrina Time: An Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun / A.G. Keeble
- 11. The Camera as Corrective: Post-Photography, Disaster Networks, and the Afterimage of Hurricane Katrina / Thomas Stubblefield
- 12. Pregnancies, Storms, and Legacies of Loss in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Mary Ruth Marotte
- 13. Re-shaping the Narrative: Pulling Focus/Pushing Boundaries in Fictional Representations of Hurricane Katrina / Glenn Jellenik.