| Description |
xiv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Routledge studies in contemporary literature |
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Routledge studies in contemporary literature.
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| Contents |
Portraits of grief: telling details and the new genres of testimony -- Foer, Spiegelman, and 9/11's timely traumas -- Graphic implosion: politics, time, and value in post-9/11 comics -- "Sometimes things disappear": absence and mutability in Colson Whitehead's The colossus of New York -- Witnessing 9/11: Art Spiegelman and the persistence of trauma -- Seeing terror, feeling art: public and private in post-9/11 literature -- "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 -- "We're the culture that cried wolf": discourse and terrorism in Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby -- Still life: 9/11's falling bodies -- Telling it like it isn't -- Portraits 9/11/01: the New York Times and the pornography of grief -- Theater after 9/11 -- Real planes and imaginary towers: Philip Roth's The plot against America as 9/11 prosthetic screen -- Precocious testimony: poetry and the uncommemorable -- Afterword: Imagination and monstrosity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
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Terrorism in literature.
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| Author |
Keniston, Ann, 1961-
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Quinn, Jeanne Follansbee, 1956-
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| LC no. |
2008006812 |
| ISBN |
0415962528 (acid-free paper) |
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9780415962520 (acidfree paper) |
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