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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petrovic, Paul, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in motion pictures.

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.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 231 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Summary:

As the horrific events of September 11, 2001, slip deeper into the past, the significance of 9/11 remains a global cultural touchstone. Initially, filmmakers, writers, and other artists wrangled with its meaning, often relying on fantastical, ethnic, or exceptionalist themes to address the psychic dread of the terrorist attacks. Over time, however, more nuanced and socio-historical perspectives about 9/11 and its impact on America and the world have emerged. In Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television, prominent authors from a variety of disciplines demonstrate how emergent American and international texts expand upon and complicate the initial post-9/11 canon. Editor Paul Petrovic has assembled a collection of essays that broadens our understanding of how popular culture has addressed 9/11, particularly as it has evolved over time. Contributors bring fresh readings to popular novels, such as Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom; films like Zero Dark Thirty and This Is the End; and television shows such as 24 and Homeland. Showcasing a diverse range of viewpoints, essays in this collection assess, among other topics, how African American identity is challenged by post-9/11 allegories; how superhero films foretell the inevitability of city-wide destruction by terrorists, and how shows like Breaking Bad problematize ideas of liberalism and masculinity. Though primarily aimed at scholars, Representing 9/11 seeks to engage readers interested in how various forms of media have interpreted the events and aftermath of the terrorist attacks in 2001. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Paul Petrovic

Counter-reactions against realism. Jess Walter's The zero: satirizing the "desert of the real" / Marjorie Worthington

Memorializing post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic city / Jeffrey Severs

Never give a good politician time to pray: Stephen King's treatment of political power and community involvement in Under the dome / Tamara Watkins

Which came first: zombies or the plague?: Colson Whitehead's Zone one as Post-9/11 allegory / Anne Canavan

A eulogy of the urban superhero: the everyday destruction of space in the superhero film / James M. Gilmore

Perception, ideology and community. Paucity of imagination: stereotypes, public debates, and the limits of ideology in Amy Waldman's The submission / Amir Khadem

Strangers in a homeland: veterans and "innocensus" in Billy Lynn's Long halftime walk and The yellow birds / Damon Barta

"Our new customer is the Bush administration": questioning cultural identity and governmental surveillance in Allegra Goodman's The cookbook collector / Paul Petrovic

"I'm the motherfucker who found this place": locating post-Bin Laden America in Zero dark thirty / Lloyd Isaac Vayo

From 24 to Homeland: the shift in America's perception of terrorism / Deborah Pless

Masculinity, marginalization, melancholy, and hyper-protection: the danger that keeps knocking: representations of post-9/11 masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking bad / Shana Kraynak

Post-closet and post-9/11: the bromantic imagination of disaster in This is the end and I'm so excited! / Ken Feil

The human barnyard: rhetoric, identification, and symbolic representation in Giannina Braschi's United States of banana / Elizabeth Lowry

The pain and prison of post-9/11 parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom / Megan Cannella

How to get to 9/11: Teju Cole's melancholic fiction / Ariela Freedman

Poetic responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's "The school among the ruins" / Lin Knutson

International responses. "Some sense of bridge-making": exploring the relationship between America and Pakistan in Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and Mira Nair's film adaptation / Laura Findlay

Haunting cartographies: mapping the aftermath in Joachim Trier's Oslo, 31st August / Danica Van De Velde.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442252677

1442252677

OCLC:

904715499