Commentators and artists attempting to represent the events of September 11, 2001, struggle to create meaning in the face of such powerful experiences. This collection of essays offers critical insights into the discourses that shape the memory of 9/11 in the narrative genres of comics, literature, film, and theatre. It examines historical, political, cultural, and personal meanings of the disaster and its aftermath through critical discussions of Marvel and New Yorker comics, American and British novels, Hollywood films, and the plays of Anne Nelson.
Commentators and artists attempting to represent the events of September 11, 2001, struggle to create meaning in the face of such powerful experiences. This collection of essays offers critical insights into the discourses that shape the memory of 9/11 in the narrative genres of comics, literature, film, and theatre. It examines historical, political, cultural, and personal meanings of the disaster and its aftermath through critical discussions of Marvel and New Yorker comics, American and British novels, Hollywood films, and the plays of Anne Nelson.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Véronique Bragard is associate professor in comparative literature at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Christophe Dony combines teaching and research activities at the Université de Liège, Belgium, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literatures. Warren Rosenberg is professor of English and chair of the English department at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction VÉRONIQUE BRAGARD, CHRISTOPHE DONY and WARREN ROSENBERG Part I: Comics Covering 9/11: The New Yorker, Trauma Kitsch, and Popular Memory TIMOTHY KRAUSE Spandex Agonistes: Superhero Comics Confront the War on Terror MATTHEW J. COSTELLO "Whose Side Are You On?" The Allegorization of 9/11 in Marvel's Civil War STEPHAN PACKARD Part II: Literature September 11 and Cold War Nostalgia AARON DEROSA Don DeLillo's Falling Man: Countering Post-9/11 Narratives of Heroic Masculinity MAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL Misplaced Anxieties: Violence and Trauma in Ian McEwan's Saturday ULRIKE TANCKE The Mediated Trauma of September 11, 2001, in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and David Foster Wallace's "The Suffering Channel" MARC OXOBY Part III: Performance Terror and Mismemory: Resignifying September 11 in World Trade Center and United GERRY CANAVAN From Flying Man to Falling Man: 9/11 Discourse in Superman Returns and Batman Begins DAN HASSLER-FOREST Authenticating the Reel: Realism, Simulation, and Trauma in United FRANCES PHEASANT-KELLY Connecting in the Aftermath: Trauma, Performance, and Catharsis in the Plays of Anne Nelson JAMES M. CHERRY About the Contributors Index
TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction VÉRONIQUE BRAGARD, CHRISTOPHE DONY and WARREN ROSENBERG Part I: Comics Covering 9/11: The New Yorker, Trauma Kitsch, and Popular Memory TIMOTHY KRAUSE Spandex Agonistes: Superhero Comics Confront the War on Terror MATTHEW J. COSTELLO "Whose Side Are You On?" The Allegorization of 9/11 in Marvel's Civil War STEPHAN PACKARD Part II: Literature September 11 and Cold War Nostalgia AARON DEROSA Don DeLillo's Falling Man: Countering Post-9/11 Narratives of Heroic Masculinity MAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL Misplaced Anxieties: Violence and Trauma in Ian McEwan's Saturday ULRIKE TANCKE The Mediated Trauma of September 11, 2001, in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and David Foster Wallace's "The Suffering Channel" MARC OXOBY Part III: Performance Terror and Mismemory: Resignifying September 11 in World Trade Center and United GERRY CANAVAN From Flying Man to Falling Man: 9/11 Discourse in Superman Returns and Batman Begins DAN HASSLER-FOREST Authenticating the Reel: Realism, Simulation, and Trauma in United FRANCES PHEASANT-KELLY Connecting in the Aftermath: Trauma, Performance, and Catharsis in the Plays of Anne Nelson JAMES M. CHERRY About the Contributors Index
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