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Is this America? : Katrina as cultural trauma
- Title
- Is this America? : Katrina as cultural trauma / Ron Eyerman.
- Author
- Eyerman, Ron
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- ix,171pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book explores how Katrina has been constructed as a cultural trauma in print media, the arts and popular culture, and television coverage. Using stories told by the New York Times, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Time, Newsweek, NBC, and CNN, as well as the works of artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and graphic designers, Ron Eyerman analyzes how these narratives publicly articulated collective pain and loss. He demonstrates that, by exposing a foundational racial cleavage in American society, these expressions of cultural trauma turned individual experiences of suffering during Katrina into a national debate about the failure of the white majority in the United States to care about the black minority.
- Series Statement
- The Katrina bookshelf
- Uniform Title
- Katrina bookshelf.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.
- Contents
- Breaking the covenant -- Print media -- Arts and popular culture -- Television coverage.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-8225
- ISBN
- 9781477303689 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1477303685 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781477305478 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1477305475 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014049381
- OCLC
- 900609113
- Author
- Eyerman, Ron, author.
- Title
- Is this America? : Katrina as cultural trauma / Ron Eyerman.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [2015]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Katrina bookshelfKatrina bookshelf.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.
- Sudoc No.
- Z UA380.8 EY35is txdocs
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-8225