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Spectral Consciousness in Post-9/11 American Poetry (Revised Form)
- Author(s):
- Joydeep Chakraborty (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- American Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Shakespeare
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Psychiatry, Psychology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6VR27
- Abstract:
- After presenting an overview of scholarship on post-9/11 American poetry, my article focuses on a group of largely neglected post-9/11 poems, which deal with spectral consciousness and hallucinatory experiences. In exploring this issue, I have tried to establish a relationship between trauma-related intrusive memories and hallucination on the basis of information-processing model of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), that clinical researchers also utilise. Moreover, the poems I have chosen not only challenge a number of traditional binaries like, ‘presence / absence’, ‘living /dead’, ‘synchronic / diachronic’ and so on, but also maintain in their most mature form a certain cognitive stability which lends a rich dimension to post-9/11 poetics. While examining spectral consciousness in such poems, my article also identifies interesting points of connection between postmodernism and them.
- Notes:
- Readers of this article are earnestly requested to contact with me if they want to offer some scholarly feedback on it.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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