Routledge
302 pages
Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and literature’s attempts to convey 9/11.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Representing 9/11: Literature and Resistance," Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
Part One: Experiencing 9/11: Time, Trauma, and the Incommensurable Event
Chapter 1: "Portraits of Grief: Telling Details and the New Genres of Testimony," Nancy K. Miller
Chapter 2: "Foer, Spiegelman, and 9/11’s Timely Traumas," Mitchum Huehls
Chapter 3: "Graphic Implosion: Politics, Time, and Value in Post-9/11 Comics," Simon Cooper and Paul Atkinson
Chapter 4: "‘Sometimes Things Disappear’: Absence and Mutability in Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York," Stephanie Li
Chapter 5: "Witnessing 9/11: Art Spiegelman and the Persistence of Trauma," Richard Glejzer
Part Two: 9/11 Politics and Representation
Chapter 6: "Seeing Terror, Feeling Art: Public and Private in Post-9/11 Literature," Michael Rothberg
Chapter 7: "‘We’re not a friggin’ girl band’: September 11, Masculinity, and the British-American Relationship in David Hare’s Stuff Happens and Ian McEwan’s Saturday," Rebecca Carpenter
Chapter 8: "‘We’re the culture that cried wolf’: Discourse and Terrorism in Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby," Lance Allen Rubin
Chapter 9: "Still Life: 9/11’s Falling Bodies," Laura Frost
Part Three: 9/11 and the Literary Tradition
Chapter 10: "Telling It Like It Isn’t," David Simpson
Chapter 11: "Portraits 9/11/01: The New York Times and the Pornography of Grief," Simon Stow
Chapter 12: "Theater after 9/11," Robert Brustein
Chapter 13: "Real Planes and Imaginary Towers: Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America as 9/11 Prosthetic Screen," Charles Lewis
Chapter 14: "Precocious Testimony: Poetry and the Uncommemorable," Jeffrey Gray
Afterword: "Imagination and Monstrosity," Robert Pinsky
Contributors
Index
