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almafu_9960141309602883
Format:
1 online resource (174 p.)
ISBN:
9780748646975
Content:
Explores the fiction, poetry, theatre and cinema that have represented the 9/11 attacksWorks by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, Simon Armitage and Mohsin Hamid are discussed in relation to the specific problems of writing about such a visually spectacular 'event' that has had enormous global implications. Other chapters analyse initial responses to 9/11, the intriguing tensions between fiction and non-fiction, the challenge of describing traumatic history and the ways in which the terrorist attacks have been discussed culturally in the decade since September 11.Key FeaturesContributes to the growing literature on 9/11, presenting an over-view of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermathFocus on Don DeLillo: adds to the literature surrounding this major American novelistFocus on Martin Amis: adds to the growing critical work on this much discussed British novelist and essayistMan on Wire: provides a critical analysis of this Oscar winning film regarding its oblique references to 9/11
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: Eyewitnesses, Conspiracies and Baudrillard --
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1. ‘Beyond Belief’: McEwan, DeLillo and 110 Stories --
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2. ‘Total Malignancy . . . Militant Irony’: Martin Amis, The Second Plane --
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3. ‘You Know How it Ends’: Metafiction and 9/11 in Windows on the World --
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4. ‘A Wing and a Prayer’: Simon Armitage, Out of the Blue --
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5. ‘A Certain Blurring of the Facts’: Man on Wire and 9/11 --
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6. ‘He is Consoling, She is Distraught’: Men and Women and 9/11 in The Mercy Seat and The Guys --
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7. ‘Everything Seemed to Mean Something’: Signifying 9/11 in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man --
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Conclusion: ‘I am a Lover of America’ --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780748646975
URL:
Co-access DOI click Walter de Gruyter
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646975
URL:
Edinburgh scholarship online
URL:
Co-access DOI click Walter de Gruyter
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646975
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