Aimee Pozorski

Falling After 9/11 (eBook, PDF)

Crisis in American Art and Literature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Falling After 9/11 investigates the connections between violence, trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Briegbeder's Windows on the World, and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center.

Falling After 9/11 argues that the apparent failure of these texts to register fully the trauma of the day in fact points to a larger problem in the national tradition: the problem of reference-of how to refer to falling-in the 21st century and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628925005
• Artikelnr.: 48421448

Autorenporträt

Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, USA, where she also coordinates the Racial Justice Certificate. She is the author of AIDS-Trauma and Politics (2019), Falling After 9-11: Art and Literature in Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010) (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2011). She is Co-executive Editor, with Maren Scheurer, of Philip Roth Studies, and is past President of the Philip Roth Society (2009-2015).