Literature after 9/11 [Paperback]

Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11s effects on literature and literatures attempts to convey 9/11.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Representing 9/11: Literature and Resistance, Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn

Part One: Experiencing 9/11: Time, Trauma, and the Incommensurable Event

Chapter 1: Portraits of Grief: Telling Details and the New Genres of Testimony, Nancy K. Miller

Chapter 2: Foer, Spiegelman, and 9/11s Timely Traumas, Mitchum Huehls

Chapter 3: Graphic Implosion: Politics, Time, and Value in Post-9/11 Comics, Simon Cooper and Paul Atkinson

Chapter 4: Sometimes Things Disappear: Absence and Mutability in Colson Whiteheads The Colossus of New York, Stephanie Li

Chapter 5: Witnessing 9/11: Art Spiegelman and the Persistence of Trauma, Richard Glejzer

Part Two: 9/11 Politics and Representation

Chapter 6: Seeing Terror, Feeling Art: Public and Private in Post-9/11 Literature, Michael Rothberg

Chapter 7: Were not a friggin girl band: September 11, Masculinity, and the British-American Relationship in David Hares Stuff Happens and Ian McEwans Saturday, Rebecca Carpenter

Chapter 8: Were the culture that cried wolf: Discourse and Terrorism in Chuck Palahniuks Lullaby, Lance Allen Rubin

Chapter 9: Still Life: 9/11s Falling Bodies, Laura Frost

Part Three: 9/11 and the Literary Tradition

Chapter 10: Telling It Like It Isnt, David Simpson

Chapter 11: Portraits 9/11/01: The New York Times and the Pornography of Grief, Simon Stow

Chapter 12: Theater after 9/11, RoblCM