9/11 and the Literature of Terror
Explores the fiction, poetry, theatre and cinema that have represented the 9/11 attacks.Works by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, Simon Armitage and Mohsin Hamid are discussed in relation to the specific problems of writing about such a visually spectacular 'event' that has had enormous global implications. Other chapters analyse initial responses to 9/11, the intriguing tensions between fiction and non-fiction, the challenge of describing traumatic history and the ways in which the terrorist attacks have been discussed culturally in the decade since September 11.
Key Features* Contributes to the growing literature on 9/11, presenting an over-view of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermath* Focus on Don DeLillo: adds to the literature surrounding this major American novelist* Focus on Martin Amis: adds to the growing critical work on this much discussed British novelist and essayist* Man on Wire: provides a critical analysis of this Oscar winning film regarding its oblique references to 9/11

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9/11 and the Literature of Terror
Explores the fiction, poetry, theatre and cinema that have represented the 9/11 attacks.Works by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, Simon Armitage and Mohsin Hamid are discussed in relation to the specific problems of writing about such a visually spectacular 'event' that has had enormous global implications. Other chapters analyse initial responses to 9/11, the intriguing tensions between fiction and non-fiction, the challenge of describing traumatic history and the ways in which the terrorist attacks have been discussed culturally in the decade since September 11.
Key Features* Contributes to the growing literature on 9/11, presenting an over-view of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermath* Focus on Don DeLillo: adds to the literature surrounding this major American novelist* Focus on Martin Amis: adds to the growing critical work on this much discussed British novelist and essayist* Man on Wire: provides a critical analysis of this Oscar winning film regarding its oblique references to 9/11

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9/11 and the Literature of Terror

by Martin Randall
9/11 and the Literature of Terror

9/11 and the Literature of Terror

by Martin Randall

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Explores the fiction, poetry, theatre and cinema that have represented the 9/11 attacks.Works by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, Simon Armitage and Mohsin Hamid are discussed in relation to the specific problems of writing about such a visually spectacular 'event' that has had enormous global implications. Other chapters analyse initial responses to 9/11, the intriguing tensions between fiction and non-fiction, the challenge of describing traumatic history and the ways in which the terrorist attacks have been discussed culturally in the decade since September 11.
Key Features* Contributes to the growing literature on 9/11, presenting an over-view of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermath* Focus on Don DeLillo: adds to the literature surrounding this major American novelist* Focus on Martin Amis: adds to the growing critical work on this much discussed British novelist and essayist* Man on Wire: provides a critical analysis of this Oscar winning film regarding its oblique references to 9/11


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780748638529
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 06/28/2011
Pages: 174
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Martin Randall is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. His PhD concerned the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary British fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction: Eyewitnesses, Conspiracies and Baudrillard 3

1 'Beyond Belief: McEwan, DeLillo and 110 Stories 19

2 'Total Malignancy ... Militant Irony': Martin Amis, The Second Plane 45

3 You Know How it Ends': Metafiction and 9/11 in Windows on the World 63

4 'A Wing and a Prayer': Simon Armitage, Out of the Blue\p78

5 'A Certain Blurring of the Facts': Man on Wire and 9/11 88

6 'He is Consoling, She is Distraught': Men and Women and 9/11 in The Mercy Seat and The Guys 99

7 'Everything Seemed to Mean Something': Signifying 9/11 in Don DeLillo's Falling Man 120

Conclusion: 'I am a Lover of America' 131

Notes 145

Bibliography 161

Index 169

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