Representing 9/11 : trauma, ideology, and nationalism in literature, film, and television /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Petrovic, Paul, 1982- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:	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, on television. Terrorism in literature. Terrorism in motion pictures. Terrorism on television. Psychic trauma in literature. Psychic trauma in motion pictures. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence. Criticism, interpretation, etc. September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) 2000 - 2099 American fiction. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature. September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Paul Petrovic
Counter-reactions against realism. Jess Walter's The zero: satirizing the "desert of the real" / Marjorie Worthington
Memorializing post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic city / Jeffrey Severs
Never give a good politician time to pray: Stephen King's treatment of political power and community involvement in Under the dome / Tamara Watkins
Which came first: zombies or the plague?: Colson Whitehead's Zone one as Post-9/11 allegory / Anne Canavan
A eulogy of the urban superhero: the everyday destruction of space in the superhero film / James M. Gilmore
Perception, ideology and community. Paucity of imagination: stereotypes, public debates, and the limits of ideology in Amy Waldman's The submission / Amir Khadem
Strangers in a homeland: veterans and "innocensus" in Billy Lynn's Long halftime walk and The yellow birds / Damon Barta
"Our new customer is the Bush administration": questioning cultural identity and governmental surveillance in Allegra Goodman's The cookbook collector / Paul Petrovic
"I'm the motherfucker who found this place": locating post-Bin Laden America in Zero dark thirty / Lloyd Isaac Vayo
From 24 to Homeland: the shift in America's perception of terrorism / Deborah Pless
Masculinity, marginalization, melancholy, and hyper-protection: the danger that keeps knocking: representations of post-9/11 masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking bad / Shana Kraynak
Post-closet and post-9/11: the bromantic imagination of disaster in This is the end and I'm so excited! / Ken Feil
The human barnyard: rhetoric, identification, and symbolic representation in Giannina Braschi's United States of banana / Elizabeth Lowry
The pain and prison of post-9/11 parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom / Megan Cannella
How to get to 9/11: Teju Cole's melancholic fiction / Ariela Freedman
Poetic responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's "The school among the ruins" / Lin Knutson
International responses. "Some sense of bridge-making": exploring the relationship between America and Pakistan in Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and Mira Nair's film adaptation / Laura Findlay
Haunting cartographies: mapping the aftermath in Joachim Trier's Oslo, 31st August / Danica Van De Velde.