Rewriting The American Soul: Trauma, Neuroscience And The Contemporary Literary Imagination

Synopsis

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Re-visioning Trauma -- Posttraumatic Culture And The Repressed Memory Of Freud -- Memory And The Myth Of Innocence: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (2001) -- Resuming The Cold War Game: Don Delillo's Falling Man (2007) -- The Trauma Of Self-recognition: Richard Powers's The Echo Maker (2006) -- Life Writing And Black Counter-memory: Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows Of An American (2008) -- From Science To Archeology: Ian Mcewan's Saturday (2005) -- Cartographies Of Diasporic Trauma: Teju Cole's Open City (2011) -- Conclusion: Forgetting Therapy And Trauma's Ends -- Bibliography -- Index. Anna Thiemann. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 183-200) And Index.