Radical planes? 9/11 and patterns of continuity [e-book] / edited by Dunja M. Mohr, Birgit Dawes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mohr, Dunja M., editor.

Däwes, Birgit, editor.

Series:

Costerus ; Volume 218.

Costerus New Series, 0165-9618 ; Volume 218

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Study and teaching.

Popular culture.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2016.

Summary:

Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity , edited by Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes, 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:

Preliminary Material / Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes

Transnational Dimensions of 9/11: An Introduction / Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes

Public Culture after 9/11 and Peter Josyph’s Liberty Street / David Holloway

The Coincidence of Historical Fiction: “Code-Orange” Reading after 9/11 / Charles Lewis

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

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

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

Homeland Security and Transmigration in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker / Anna Thiemann

Male Domesticity and the 9/11-Novel: Jay McInerney’s The Good Life / Till Werkmeister

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

“You Ever Think about the Term ‘Homeland Security’?” Todd Field’s Adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s Little Children / Anna Flügge

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

Index / Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 20, 2016).

ISBN:

90-04-32422-4

OCLC:

960761041

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004324220 DOI