Out of the blue : September 11 and the novel / Kristiaan Versluys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Versluys, Kristiaan.

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--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic clichés and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events—and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World, and John Updike's Terrorist. He scrutinizes how these writers affirm the humanity of the disoriented individual, as opposed to the cocksure killer or politician, and retranslate hesitation, stuttering, or stammering into a precarious act of defiance. Versluys also discusses works by Ian McEwan, Anita Shreve, Martin Amis, and Michael Cunningham, arguing for the novel's distinct power in rendering the devastation of 9/11.

Contents:

American melancholia : Don DeLillo's Falling man

Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers : the politics of trauma

A rose is not a rose is not a rose : history and language in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud and incredibly close

Exorcising the ghost : irony and spectralization in Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the world

September 11 and the other.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613629371

9781280599538

1280599537

9780231520331

0231520336

OCLC:

785782136