Portraying 9/11

Véronique Bragard is associate professor in comparative literature at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Christophe Dony combines teaching and research activities at the Université de Liège, Belgium, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literatures. Warren Rosenberg is professor of English and chair of the English department at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgments      IntroductionVÉRONIQUE BRAGARD, CHRISTOPHE DONY and WARREN ROSENBERG      Part I: ComicsCovering 9/11: The New Yorker, Trauma Kitsch, and Popular MemoryTIMOTHY KRAUSE      Spandex Agonistes: Superhero Comics Confront the War on TerrorMATTHEW J. COSTELLO      “Whose Side Are You On?” The Allegorization of 9/11 in Marvel’s Civil WarSTEPHAN PACKARD      Part II: LiteratureSeptember 11 and Cold War NostalgiaAARON DEROSA      Don DeLillo’s Falling Man: Countering Post–9/11 Narratives of Heroic MasculinityMAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL      Misplaced Anxieties: Violence and Trauma in Ian McEwan’s SaturdayULRIKE TANCKE      The Mediated Trauma of September 11, 2001, in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and David Foster Wallace’s “The Suffering Channel”MARC OXOBY      Part III: PerformanceTerror and Mismemory: Resignifying September 11 in World Trade Center and United      GERRY CANAVAN      From Flying Man to Falling Man: 9/11 Discourse in Superman Returns and Batman BeginsDAN HASSLER-FOREST      Authenticating the Reel: Realism, Simulation, and Trauma in United      FRANCES PHEASANT-KELLY      Connecting in the Aftermath: Trauma, Performance, and Catharsis in the Plays of Anne NelsonJAMES M. CHERRY      About the Contributors      Index