A decade after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, over 160 novels by U.S.-American writers have re-enacted or revised the day we now call '9/11'. This study systematically charts the rich subgenre of Ground Zero Fiction by exploring its formal, structural, thematic, and functional dimensions. In a combination of typological survey and detailed analysis, both familiar texts (by Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, or John Updike) and lesser-known approaches (by writers such as Karen Kingsbury, Laila Halaby, Nicholas Rinaldi, Helen Schulman, or Ronald Sukenick) are investigated for their specific engagements with contemporary history. The American 9/11 novel, this volume argues, not only provides a productive testing ground for narrative crisis management, but it serves as an exemplary twenty-first century interface between historical and fictional representation, between ethical and aesthetic responsibilities, and between national and transnational formations of identity.
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ISBN | 9783825359300 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Symbolik, historische /11. September, Foer, Jonathan Safran, Updike, John, historische (Gegen-)Narrative, New York (i. d. Literatur), kollektive Erinnerung, DeLillo, Don, Gegenwartsliteratur /U.S.A., Powers, Richard, Gedächtniskultur, Elfter September, Narrative und Gegennarrative, nine eleven, Traumaliteratur, Fester Einband |
Verlag | Universitätsvlg. Winter |
Jahr | 2011 |
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