ABSTRACT
Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and literature’s attempts to convey 9/11.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |103 pages
Part I Experiencing 9/11
chapter 4|17 pages
“Sometimes things disappear”
Absence and Mutability in Colson Whitehead's The Colossus of New York
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part 2|86 pages
9/11 Politics and Representation
chapter 7|18 pages
“We're Not a Friggin' Girl Band”
September 11, Masculinity, and the British-American Relationship in David Hare's Stuff Happens and Ian McEwan's Saturday
chapter 8|19 pages
“We're the Culture That Cried Wolf”
Discourse and Terrorism in Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby
part 3|78 pages
9/11 and the Literary Tradition
chapter 13|15 pages
Real Planes and Imaginary Towers
Philip Roth's The Plot Against America as 9/11 Prosthetic Screen
