Ground Zero Fiction
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.
| Autor: | Däwes, Birgit |
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| ISBN: | 9783825359300 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 497 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.09.2011 |
| Untertitel: | History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel |
| Schlagworte: | 9/11 11. September 2001 DeLillo, Don Foer, Jonathan Safran New York (i. d. Literatur) Subgenre /Ground Zero Fiction Symbolik, historische /11. September Updike, John historische (Gegen-)Narrative kollektive Erinnerung |