Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context

Name: Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context
Author: Arin Keeble

Literature, Film and Television

Specificaties

Gebonden, blz. | Engels

Springer International Publishing | e druk, 2019

ISBN13: 9783030163525

Rubricering

Juridisch :

Springer International Publishing e druk, 2019 9783030163525

€ 61,99

In winkelwagen

Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen

Gratis verzonden

Samenvatting

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.”

Specificaties

ISBN13:9783030163525

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

Inhoudsopgave

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.

Uw winkelwagen

Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context

Literature, Film and Television

Samenvatting

Specificaties

Inhoudsopgave

Net verschenen

Rubrieken

Personen

Trefwoorden