Writing the 9/11 decade : reportage and the evolution of the novel / Charlie Lee-Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee-Potter, Charlie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.

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

American fiction.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Press coverage.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Press coverage.

Journalism and literature.

Physical Description:

252 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

Writing the 9/11 Decade" investigates the relation of the novel to reportage, and the role of both in shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to 9/11. Journalist, academic and literary critic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by the expectation that they would provide an immediate non-fiction response to the September 11 attacks. Jonathan Lethem expressed the plaintive view that 'most of the novelists in New York were asked by one magazine or another to write something, and to me it seems our voices, at that moment, blended into one vast impotent scream'. Beginning with an examination of the sometimes mawkish literary journalism that emerged in the days after the attacks, Writing the 9/11 Decade traces its evolution-in writers such as Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Mohsin Hamid, and Nadeem Aslam-into new literary methods of subsuming the disaster, while attempting to stand apart from it. In assessing the novel's capacity to respond to and contain an unimagined traumatic event, "Writing the 9/11 Decade" stands as a contemporary history of the form.

Contents:

Introduction

Richard Ford and Ian McEwan: transactors and redeemers

Narratives of retrogenesis and abstraction

Paul Auster: after the past

The long view

The end of the decade

Coda: in the realm of the real.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lee-Potter, Charlie author. Writing the 911 decade

ISBN:

9781501313196

1501313193

9781501313202

1501313207

OCLC:

962388815