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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson
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...
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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. Additionally, this book assesses an equally divided body of criti
Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: A Conflicted Homeland; 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 SubmissionConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index