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Description

1. vii, 136 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

1. This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn War 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."

Series statement

1. Palgrave pivot

Uniform title

1. Palgrave pivot.

Subject

1. 2005
2. Storms in literature
3. Hurricane Katrina (2005)
4. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
5. Storms in mass media

Contents

1. Introduction: narrating Katrina in context -- Intertextuality, domesticity and the spaces of disaster in Salvage the bones and Zeitoun -- "Won't bow: don't know how": New Orealsn and American exceptionalism in Treme -- Disposability, criminality and lawlessness in Bad lieutnant: Port of call New Orleans, Beasts of the southern wild and When the levees broke - a requiem in four acts -- Conclusion: traumatic rupture and slow violence.

Call number

1. JFD 19-4970

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.

Author

1. Keeble, Arin, 1977- author.

Title

1. Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in context : literature, film and television / Arin Keeble.

Publisher

1. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Palgrave pivot
2. Palgrave pivot.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.

Chronological term

1. 2005

ISBN

1. 3030163520 hardcover
2. 9783030163525 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFD 19-4970