Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context

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Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context is written by Arin Keeble and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030163539 (ISBN 10) and 9783030163532 (ISBN 13).

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.”