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Title Literature after 9/11 / edited by Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
Published New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 1
Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 1.
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 towers : Philip Roth's The Plot against America as 9/11 prosthetic screen / Charles Lewis -- Precocious testimony : poetry and the uncommemorable / Jeffrey Gray -- Afterword : Imagination and monstrosity / Robert Pinsky
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art.
Terrorism in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and literature
Psychic trauma in literature
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in art
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature
Terrorism in literature
Literatur
Elfter September
American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art.
Terrorism in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
11 septembre 2001, Attentats du (États-Unis) -- Dans la littérature.
11 september-attackerna 2001 -- influenser -- Förenta staterna.
11 september-attackerna 2001 i litteraturen.
11 september-attackerna 2001 i konsten.
Terrorism i litteraturen.
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Keniston, Ann, 1961-
Quinn, Jeanne Follansbee, 1956-
ISBN 9781135024666
1135024669
9780203707494
0203707494
0415962528
9780415962520
Other Titles Literature after nine eleven