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

Name: Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film and Television
Brand: KETAB DOWNLOAD
Price: 15.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Description

1st ed. 2019 edition

by Arin Keeble (Author)

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.”