Out of the blue : September 11 and the novel
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Out of the blue : September 11 and the novel
Columbia University Press, 2009
- : pbk
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic cliches and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events--and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World, and John Updike's Terrorist. 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.
Table of Contents
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 Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World 5. September 11 and the Other Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
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