Chronicling Trauma : Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss /

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A searing study of the intersection of journalism, fiction, and traumatic violence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Underwood, Doug
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War correspondents
Violence > Press coverage
Violence in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Journalists
Journalism and literature
Authors, American > Psychology
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Presse et litterature > Grande-Bretagne.
Presse et litterature > États-Unis.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Violence dans la litterature.
Écrivains americains > Psychologie.
Traumatisme psychique > Couverture de presse.
Violence dans la presse.
Journalism and literature > Great Britain.
Journalism and literature > United States.
Journalists > Great Britain > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Violence in literature.
Authors, American > Psychology.
War correspondents > Mental health.
Psychic trauma > Press coverage.
Violence > Press coverage.
United States
Great Britain
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Trauma, news, and narrative: the study of violence and loss in journalism and fiction
  • Stories of harm, stories of hazard: childhood stress and professional trauma in the careers of journalist-literary figures
  • Trafficking in trauma: women's rights, civil rights, and sensationalism as a spur to social justice
  • Trauma in war, trauma in life: the pose of the "heroic" battlefield correspondent
  • Depression, drink, and dissipation: dysfunctional lifestyles and art as the ultimate stimulant
  • Epilogue. New challenges, new treatments: trauma and the contemporary journalist-literary figure.

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