Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.”
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context
Book Subtitle: Literature, Film and Television
Authors: Arin Keeble
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16353-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16352-5Published: 13 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16353-2Published: 29 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 136
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Close Reading, American Culture