Salon.com > Jonathan Alexander http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Treme’s” meta pleasures http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/tremes_meta_pleasures/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/tremes_meta_pleasures/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:29:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13020220 Telling the story of Hurricane Katrina and its impact on the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast has, understandably, taken some time. After the raw immediacy of the event and the unmediated pain captured in news reports, trauma sets in. Trauma requires distance if we are to understand it as more than a wound, if we are to see the possibility for meaningful reflection. The renewal of HBO’s "Treme," set in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, testifies to the lingering impression of the storm and the flooding of New Orleans on the cultural imagination. The process of transforming the experience and memories of these ruinous events into aesthetic products shows us how our culture meditates on trauma.

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