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Representing 9/11 : trauma, ideology, and nationalism in literature, film, and television / edited by Paul Petrovic.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, on television.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in motion pictures.
- Terrorism in literature.
- Terrorism in motion pictures.
- Terrorism on television.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in motion pictures.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span>This diverse collection of essays analyzes popular culture texts-including novel, films, and television shows-that demonstrate a variety of attitudes in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. </span></span>
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Counterreactions against Realism; Chapter One: Jess Walter's The Zero; Chapter Two: Memorializing Post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City; Chapter Three: "Never Give a Good Politician Time to Pray"; Chapter Four: Which Came First, Zombies or the Plague?; Chapter Five: A Eulogy of the Urban Superhero; II: Perception, Ideology, and Community; Chapter Six: Paucity of Imagination; Chapter Seven: Strangers in a Homeland; Chapter Eight: "Our New Customer Is the Bush Administration?"; Chapter Nine: "I'm the Motherfucker Who Found This Place"
- Chapter Ten: From 24 to HomelandIII: Masculinity, Marginalization, Melancholy, and Hyper-Protection; Chapter Eleven: The Danger That Keeps Knocking; Chapter Twelve: Post-Closet and Post-9/11; Chapter Thirteen: The Human Barnyard; Chapter Fourteen: The Pain and Prison of Post-9/11 Parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom; Chapter Fifteen: How to Get to 9/11; Chapter Sixteen: Poetic Responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's The School among the Ruins; IV: International Responses; Chapter Seventeen: "Some Sense of Bridge Making"; Chapter Eighteen: Haunting Cartographies; Index; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8182-791-5
- OCLC:
- 910553816
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