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9/11 and the Literature of Terror
Martin Randall analyzes the representation of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in a wide selection of novels, short stories, poems, and plays. He discusses the tropes, narratives, and styles that have emerged as authors, journalists, playwrights, and poets "write on" from the event. Films, documentaries, and television broadcasts are also examined, as well as autobiographical essays, journalistic features, and political polemics. Randall closely reads Frederic Beigbeder, Don DeLillo, Claire Messud, and Jonathan Safran Foer against the debates surrounding representation, narrative, and controversies of history vs. fiction, as well as discussions concerning New York writing and urban fiction. Randall's treatment of literary representation, fictional responses to trauma and historical suffering, and the relationship between visual spectacle and the written word is extremely timely.
AUTHOR APPROVED Explores the fiction, poetry, theatre and cinema that have represented the 9/11 attacks Works by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, Simon Armitage and Mohsin Hamid are discussed in relation to the specific problems of writing about such a visually spectacular 'event' that has had enormous global implications.Other chapters analyse initial responses to 9/11, the intriguing tensions between fiction and non-fiction, the challenge of describing traumatic history and the ways in which the terrorist attacks have been discussed culturally in the decade since September 11. Key Features * Contributes to the growing literature on 9/11, presenting an over-view of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermath * Focus on Don DeLillo: adds to the literature surrounding this major American novelist * Focus on Martin Amis: adds to the growing critical work on this much discussed British novelist and essayist * Man on Wire: provides a critical analysis of this Oscar winning film regarding its oblique references to 9/11 Martin Randall is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. His PhD dealt with literary representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary British Fiction.
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