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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826354503321

Titolo

Representing 9/11 : trauma, ideology, and nationalism in literature, film, and television / / edited by Paul Petrovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-5267-7

1-4422-5268-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

813.6093587393

813/.6093587393

Soggetti

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in motion pictures

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, on television

Terrorism in literature

Terrorism in motion pictures

Terrorism on television

Psychic trauma in literature

Psychic trauma in motion pictures

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Counterreactions against Realism; Chapter One: Jess Walter's The Zero; Chapter Two: Memorializing Post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City; Chapter Three: "Never Give a Good Politician Time to Pray"; Chapter Four: Which Came First, Zombies or the Plague?; Chapter Five: A Eulogy of the Urban Superhero; II: Perception, Ideology, and Community; Chapter Six: Paucity of Imagination; Chapter Seven: Strangers in a Homeland; Chapter Eight: "Our New Customer Is the Bush Administration?"; Chapter Nine: "I'm the Motherfucker Who Found This



Place"

Chapter Ten: From 24 to HomelandIII: Masculinity, Marginalization, Melancholy, and Hyper-Protection; Chapter Eleven: The Danger That Keeps Knocking; Chapter Twelve: Post-Closet and Post-9/11; Chapter Thirteen: The Human Barnyard; Chapter Fourteen: The Pain and Prison of Post-9/11 Parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom; Chapter Fifteen: How to Get to 9/11; Chapter Sixteen: Poetic Responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's The School among the Ruins; IV: International Responses; Chapter Seventeen: "Some Sense of Bridge Making"; Chapter Eighteen: Haunting Cartographies; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This diverse collection of essays analyzes popular culture texts-including novel, films, and television shows-that demonstrate a variety of attitudes in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. </span></span>