Literature after 9/11
by Keniston, Ann Quinn, Jeanne Follansbee
"Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11's effects on literature and literature's attempts to convey 9/11."
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- Full title :Literature after 9/11 / edited by Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn.
Summary
"Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11's effects on literature and literature's attempts to convey 9/11."
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- Publication Date:April 2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:April 2013.
Notes
Routledge is een imprint van de Taylor & Francis Group, een informa business.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource : : illustraties
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1135024669, 9781135024666, 9780203707494, 0203707494, 9780415962520, 0415962528, 0415883989, 9780415883986
- oclc:ocn910737186
- LC Classification:PS231.S47
- Dewey Decimal:820.9/35873931
Table of Contents
Introduction : Representing 9/11 : literature and resistance / Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn -- Portraits of grief : telling details and the new genres of testimony / Nancy K. Miller -- Foer, Spiegelman, and 9/11's timely traumas / Mitchum Huehls -- Graphic implosion : politics, time, and value in post-9/11 comics / Simon Cooper and Paul Atkinson -- "Sometimes things disappear" : absence and mutability in Colson Whitehead's The Colossus of New York / Stephanie Li -- Witnessing 9/11 : Art Spiegelman and the persistence of Trauma / Richard Glejzer -- Seeing terror, feeling art : public and private in post-9/11 literature / Michael Rothberg -- "We're not a friggin' girl band" : September 11, masculinity, and the British-American relationship in David Hare's Stuff Happens and Ian McEwan's Saturday / Rebecca Carpenter -- "We're the culture that cried wolf" : discourse and terrorism in Chuck Palahniuk's Lillaby / Lance Rubin -- Still life : 9/11's falling bodies / Laura Frost -- Telling it like it isn't / David Simpson -- Portraits 9/11/01 : the New York Times and the pornography of grief / Simon Stow -- Theater after 9/11 / Robert Brunstein -- Real planes and imaginary tower…
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