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Out of the Blue
September 11 and the Novel
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ISBN-13:
9780231520331
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
0
Autor:
Kristiaan Versluys
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. InOut 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 eventsand what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo''sFalling Man, Art Spiegelman''sIn the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer''sExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Beigbeder''sWindows on the World, and John Updike''sTerrorist. 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.
Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. InOut 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 eventsand what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo'sFalling Man, Art Spiegelman'sIn the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer'sExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Beigbeder'sWindows on the World, and John Updike'sTerrorist. 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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction. 9/11: The Discursive Responses
1. American Melancholia: Don DeLillo's Falling Man
2. Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers: The Politics of Trauma
3. A Rose Is Not a Rose Is Not a Rose: History and Language in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
4. Exorcising the Ghost: Irony and Spectralization in Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World
5. September 11 and the Other
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index