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Post-traumatic Culture

Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties

Farrell, Kirby (University of Massachusetts)

Post-traumatic Culture

Post-traumatic Culture

Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties

Post-traumatic Culture

 

According to author Kirby Farrell, the concept of trauma has shaped some of the central narratives of the 1990s--from Vietnam war stories to the video farewells of Heaven's Gate cult members. In this unique study, Farrell explores the surprising uses of trauma as both an enabling fiction and an explanatory tool during periods of overwhelming cultural change

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Beschrijving Post-traumatic Culture

In their dependence on late-Victorian models, the cultural narratives of 1990s America imply a crisis of "storylessnessdeeply implicated in the sense of injury that haunts the close of the twentieth century.

ISBN
9780801857874
Pagina's
440
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NUR
741
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Johns Hopkins University Press

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