Radical planes? 9/11 and patterns of continuity / edited by Dunja M. Mohr, Birgit Däwes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mohr, Dunja M., 1968- editor.

Däwes, Birgit, editor.

Series:

Costerus ; new ser., v. 218.

Costerus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in art.

Physical Description:

x, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Radical planes? Nine Eleven and patterns of continuity

Radical planes? September eleventh and patterns of continuity

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]

Summary:

Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. Contesting the earlier notion of a cataclysm that has changed "everything," and critically reflecting on American exceptionalism, the collection offers an inquiry into what has gone unchanged in terms of pre-9/11, post-9/11, and post-post-9/11 issues and what silences persist. How do literature and performative and visual arts negotiate this precarious balance of a pervasive discourse of change and emerging patterns of political, ideological, and cultural continuity?

Contents:

1 Transnational Dimensions of 9/11: An Introduction / Dunja M. Mohr Mohr, Dunja M., Birgit Dawes Dawes, Birgit 1

Part 1 Positionings of 9/11

2 Public Culture after 9/11 and Peter Josyph's Liberty Street / David Holloway Holloway, David 21

3 The Coincidence of Historical Fiction: "Code-Orange" Reading after 9/11 / Charles Lewis Lewis, Charles 38

4 Philosophical and Literary Dialogues in a Time of Terror / Katharina Rennhak Rennhak, Katharina 56

Part 2 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity

5 Terror as Catalyst? Negotiations of Silences, Perspectives, and Complicities in Ian McEwan's Saturday, Ali Smith's The Accidental, and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Dunja M. Mohr Mohr, Dunja M. 98

6 Letters to Osama and Terrorist Mindsets: Coming to Terms with 9/11 in Chris Cleave's Incendiary and John Updike's Terrorist / Dagmar Dreyer Dreyer, Dagmar 100

7 Homeland Security and Transmigration in Richard Powers's The Echo Maker / Anna Thiemann Thiemann, Anna 117

8 Male Domesticity and the 9/11-Novel: Jay McInerney's The GoodLife / Till Werkmeister Werkmeister, Till 135

Part 3 9/11, the Performative, and the Visual

9 "This is My Country, Too, You Know!" Intercultural Encounters in Post-9/11 Arab American Drama / Sarah Christine Giese Giese, Sarah Christine 165

10 "You Ever Think about the Term 'Homeland Security'?" Todd Field's Adaptation of Tom Perrotta's Little Children / Anna Flügge Flügge, Anna 189

11 9/11 as Memento Mori: Still-Life and Image in Don Delillo's Ekphrastic Fiction / Devin P. Zuber Zuber, Devin P. 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004318410

9004318410

OCLC:

960461419