Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre

by Véronique Bragard ,, Christophe Dony, Warren Rosenberg

Overview

Commentators and artists attempting to represent the events of September 11, 2001, struggle to create meaning in the face of such powerful experiences. This collection of essays offers critical insights into the discourses that shape the memory of 9/11 in the narrative genres of comics, literature, film, and theatre. It examines historical, political, cultural, and personal meanings of the disaster and its aftermath through critical discussions of Marvel and New Yorker comics, American and British novels, Hollywood films, and the plays of Anne Nelson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786459506
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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 Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments     
Introduction
VÉRONIQUE BRAGARD, CHRISTOPHE DONY and WARREN ROSENBERG     

Part I: Comics
Covering 9/11: The New Yorker, Trauma Kitsch, and Popular Memory
TIMOTHY KRAUSE     
Spandex Agonistes: Superhero Comics Confront the War on Terror
MATTHEW J. COSTELLO     
“Whose Side Are You On?” The Allegorization of 9/11 in Marvel’s Civil War
STEPHAN PACKARD     

Part II: Literature
September 11 and Cold War Nostalgia
AARON DEROSA     
Don DeLillo’s Falling Man: Countering Post–9/11 Narratives of Heroic Masculinity
MAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL     
Misplaced Anxieties: Violence and Trauma in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
ULRIKE 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: Performance
Terror 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 Begins
DAN 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 Nelson
JAMES M. CHERRY     

About the Contributors     
Index