America's disaster culture : the production of natural disasters in literature and pop culture /

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"Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural" disasters in American consumerism, lite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bell, Robert C. (Autor), Ficociello, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Temas:
Natural disasters > Social aspects > United States.
Disasters in literature.
Catastrophes naturelles > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Catastrophes dans la littérature.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Popular culture.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Disasters in literature
Manners and customs
Natural disasters > Social aspects
United States > Social life and customs.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: the death of the natural disaster and the birth of disaster culture
  • Trouble when the dust settles : narrative authority and Ken Burns
  • Discourse disaster : San Francisco earthquakes in 1906 and 1989
  • Natural disaster : September 11th, 2001
  • Gulf wars : the narratives of Iraq and New Orleans
  • Sandy : subjectivity, celebrity, and social media
  • The end of disaster capitalism : (a)bjection to (z)ombies of final disasters
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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