The 9/11 Novel: Trauma, Politics and Identity

by Arin Keeble

Overview

This is a comprehensive study of the first decade of literary representations of 9/11, moving from Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers (2003) to Amy Waldman's The Submission (2012). It traces the way literature has dealt with an event that continues to shape world conflict and resonate prominently in the American imagination, and argues that the corpus of literary fiction discussing 9/11 is characterized by a fundamental sense of conflictedness related to the tensions between trauma or mourning and political imperatives. The work offers in-depth analyses of texts that have historicized 9/11 and shaped the way we understand this key moment in American and world history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786478347
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	07/08/2014
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Arin Keeble is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. He has published widely on contemporary fiction, television, disaster and terrorism.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments delete deletevi
Preface delete
Introduction: A Conflicted Homeland delete
One “The New Normal” in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers
Two Windows on the World and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Crisis in Representation?
Three Marriage, Relationships and 9/11: The Seismographic Narratives of Falling Man, The Good Life and The Emperor’s Children
Four The Road: Disaster, Allegory and the Exhaustion of the Early 9/11 Novel
Five First World National Allegory and Otherness in The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Six Netherland and 9/11 Meta-Fiction
Seven The Multidirectional Memorialization of 9/11 in Amy Waldman’s The Submission
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Bibliography delete
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