Bibliograph

Is this America?, Katrina as cultural trauma, Ron Eyerman

Type

Label

Is this America?, Katrina as cultural trauma, Ron Eyerman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Is this America?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

900609113

Responsibility statement

Ron Eyerman

Series statement

The Katrina bookshelf

Sub title

Katrina as cultural trauma

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

Table Of Contents

Breaking the covenant -- Print media -- Arts and popular culture -- Television coverage

Classification