TY - BOOK AU - Mihăilescu,Dana AU - Oltean,Roxana AU - Precup,Mihaela TI - Mapping generations of traumatic memory in American narratives SN - 9781443861625 AV - RA1152.P67 U1 - 616.85/21 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Newcastle upon Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Post-traumatic stress disorder KW - United States KW - Personal narratives KW - History KW - Psychic trauma KW - Collective memory KW - État de stress post-traumatique KW - États-Unis KW - Récits personnels KW - Histoire KW - Traumatisme psychique KW - Mémoire collective KW - Education KW - bicssc KW - Teaching staff KW - Children's, Teenage & educational KW - HEALTH & FITNESS KW - Diseases KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - MEDICAL KW - Clinical Medicine KW - Evidence-Based Medicine KW - Internal Medicine KW - Mental Health KW - fast KW - Personal Narrative KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N1 - TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; WHEN THE HOLOCAUST COMES TO HARLEM; NEGOTIATING TRAUMASVIA CROSS-CULTURAL URBAN IDENTITYCONFIGURATIONS OUT OF GRIEF; "STALINTOWNS APLENTY"; CAST IN STONE; CREATING A NEO-HOODOOMYTHOLOGY; PART TWO; FROM "ANGEL OF MERCY"TO "RADICALMUSLIM"; PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMASOFMUTILATION AND JAMES ELLROY'SLOS ANGELES; THE AFTER-LIFE OF IMAGES; THE TRANSGRESSIVE MOURNERIN JOAN DIDION'S THE YEAR OF MAGICALTHINKING (2005) AND BLUE NIGHTS (2011), AND JOYCE CAROL OATES'SAWIDOW'S STORY (2011); PART THREE; CONTEMPORARY WARMEMORIALSAND THE URBAN LANDSCAPETHE GENDERED APPROACH; PROSTHETICMEMORIESOF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S INFANTILEPARALYSIS AS NARRATIVE EMBODIMENTSFOR TRAUMATIC AMERICANWARMEMORY; PART FOUR; HEALING THE NATION, MEMORIALIZING TRAUMA; WRITING POST-TRAUMATIC MEMORIES, WRITING THE CITY; THE SPECTATOR-SURVIVOR; ARTICULATION AND EVASION; GENDER AND THE NOSTALGIC BODYIN POST-9/11 FICTION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX N2 - This volume collects work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are interested in examining the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the contemporary United States. The contributors depart from the interpretation of trauma as a unique exceptional event that shatters all systems of representation, as seen in the writing of early trauma theorists like Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, and Dominick LaCapra. Rather, the chapters in this collection are UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=798193 ER -