The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television

by Keith Wilhite (Editor), Eduardo Barros Grela University of A Coruña (Contribution by), Jason Buchanan (Contribution by), Michael Devine (Contribution by), Catalina Florina Florescu (Contribution by)

Overview

This book analyzes post-9/11 literature, film, and television through an interdisciplinary lens, taking into account contemporary debates about spatial practices, gentrification, cosmopolitanism, memory and history, nostalgia, the uncanny and the abject, postmodern virtuality, the politics of realism, and the economic and social life of cities. Featuring an international group of scholars, the volume theorizes how literary and visual representations expose the persistent conflicts that arise as cities rebuild in the shadow of past ruins.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611477184
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	03/03/2016
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Keith Wilhite is associate professor of English at Siena College.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The City since 9/11
Keith Wilhite
I. Remapping the City: Gentrification, the Usable Past, and the Postmodern Metropolis
1. Navigating the Post-9/11 Metropolis: Reclaiming and Remapping Urban Space
in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Joseph
O’Neill’s Netherland
Karolina Golimowska
2.Million Dollar Views: Cognitive Gentrification in Post-9/11 New York City
Jason Buchanan
3.New York Unearthed: 9/11, Let the Great World Spin, and the Archaeology of
Grief
Caroline Chamberlin Hellman
4.Rhetoric and Aesthetics of the Ephemeral in Ronald Sukenick’s Last Fall
Salwa Karoui-Elounelli
5.The Reality of Fiction in a Virtually Postmodern Metropolis: Jonathan Lethem’s
Chronic City and Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
Justin St. Clair
II. The Metropolis Unmoored: Uncanny Worlds and Global Cities
6.Zombies, the Uncanny, and the City: Colson Whitehead’s Zone One
Tim Gauthier
7.The Spectral City: Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark and Other Imagined Cities
Eduardo Barros-Grela
8.Global Homesickness in William Gibson’s Blue Ant Trilogy
Sean Scanlan
9.Before After: Amitav Ghosh’s Pre-1856 Cosmopolis as Post-9/11 Lost Object
Hilary Thompson
10.Shifting the City’s Center within Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Ghazala Hashmi
III. Framing the City: Abjection, Realism, and the Restorative Power of Cinema
11.Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men: Piling Up Traumatic Spectacles of Terror in a
Post-9/11 World
Jenny Kijowski
12.Abject Spaces in The Bridge and The Killing: The Post-9/11 City of Nordic Noir
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
13.Gritty Urban Realism as Ideology: The Wire and the Televisual Representation of
the “Inner City”
Steve Macek
14.Early Cinema and the Post-9/11 City: Hugo and Extremely Loud & Incredibly
Close
Michael Devine
Conclusion: Ruins and Memorials
Catalina Florina Florescu
Index
About the Contributors