9/11 Novel

Trauma, Politics and Identity

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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This is a comprehensive study of the first decade of literary representations of 9/11, moving from Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers (2003) to Amy Waldman's The Submission (2012). It traces the way literature has dealt with an event that continues to shape world conflict and resonate prominently in the American imagination, and argues that the corpus of literary fiction discussing 9/11 is characterized by a fundamental sense of conflictedness related to the tensions between trauma or mourning and political imperatives. The work offers in-depth analyses of texts that have historicized 9/11 and shaped the way we understand this key moment in American and world history.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-07-08
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786478347

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments delete deleteviPreface deleteIntroduction: A Conflicted Homeland deleteOne“The New Normal” in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No TowersTwoWindows on the World and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Crisis in Representation?ThreeMarriage, Relationships and 9/11: The Seismographic Narratives of Falling Man, The Good Life and The Emperor’s ChildrenFourThe Road: Disaster, Allegory and the Exhaustion of the Early 9/11 NovelFiveFirst World National Allegory and Otherness in The Reluctant FundamentalistSixNetherland and 9/11 Meta-FictionSevenThe Multidirectional Memorialization of 9/11 in Amy Waldman’s The SubmissionConclusion deleteNotes deleteBibliography deleteIndex delete