Elena Furlanetto (Dr.) is a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her main research areas include American literature, postcolonial literatures and empire studies, post-9/11 cinema, and poetry.
Dietmar Meinel (Dr.) is a post-doc in American literary and cultural studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interest include 19th-century America, animation films, and visual culture.

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction: A Cultural History of Neurosis, From Diagnostics to Poetics 9
The Lure of Space: Psychasthenia as Mnemonic Device in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days 37
Disintegrated Selves: Dissociative Disorders and Colonial Anxiety in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book 55
Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap: The Potential of Transcultural Recognition 75
Neoliberalism, Terror, and the Etiology of Neurotic Citizenship 95
Pegida as Angstneurotiker: A Linguistic Analysis of Concepts of Fear in Right-wing Populist Discourses in German Online Media 115
Ain't It Funny? Danny Brown, Black Subjectivity, and the Performance of Neurosis 137
Neurosis as Resilience in Jhumpa Lahiri's Diasporic Short Fictions 159
Allegories of Pathology: Post-War Colonial Expatriates and Imperial Neurosis in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Derek Walcott's Omeros 179