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Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film and Television

Autor Arin Keeble
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iun 2019
This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee. It argues that these texts engage with the human tragedy and political fallout of the Katrina crisis while simultaneously responding to issues that have characterized the wider, George W. Bush era of American history; notably the aftermath of 9/11 and ensuing War on Terror. In doing so it recognizes important challenges to trauma studies as an interpretive framework, opening up a discussion of the overlaps between traumatic rupture and systemic or, “slow violence.”
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030163525
ISBN-10: 3030163520
Pagini: 127
Ilustrații: VII, 136 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Narrating Katrina in Context.- 2. Intertextuality, Domesticity and the Spaces of Disaster in Salvage the Bones and Zeitoun.- 3. 'Won’t Bow: Don’t Know How': New Orleans and American Exceptionalism in Treme.- 4. Disposability, Criminality and Lawlessness in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Beasts of the Southern Wild and When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.

Notă biografică

Arin Keeble is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He has published widely on the representation of terrorism and disaster and has published in scholarly journals including Modern Language Review, European Journal of American Culture, Comparative American Studies, Canadian Review of American Studies and Punk and Post-Punk.

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'This immensely thought-provoking study engages with the representation of Katrina across a variety of narrative forms — from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Werner Herzog. In doing so, it reveals a series of compelling links between a diverse selection of texts and a powerful, under-scrutinized connection between Katrina, 9/11 and that preceding disaster’s divisive legacies. This is urgent yet nuanced scholarship and Keeble navigates a path through complex debates about trauma, memory and nationhood in an unfailingly articulate and insightful fashion.'
— Samuel Thomas, Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK
​'Bringing race, place and  politics into painful focus, Arin Keeble’s Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context offers an excellent and authoritative  study of Katrina’s cultural legacy.'
— James Annesley, Senior Lecturer in American Literature, Newcastle University, UK
'In Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context, Arin Keeble provides a vital examination of the “slow violence” linking cultural responses to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Approaching both events with a characteristic clearness and sensitivity, he expands a new and necessary field of studies that works harder to contextualise US responses to these “national” tragedies through the interrogative frameworks of neoliberalism, cultural trauma, and multidirectional memory.'
— Rachel Sykes, Lecturer in Contemporary American Literature, University of Birmingham, UK

Caracteristici

This is the first book dedicated to narrative representations of Hurricane Katrina Situates Hurricane Katrina in the cultural, social and political contexts of post-9/11 America Explores key preoccupations of this cycle of Katrina narratives while also addressing one of the most urgent tasks of 9/11 studies: meaningfully understanding the impact of the attacks and their aftermath without reinforcing exceptionalist narratives