Charlie Lee-Potter

Writing the 9/11 Decade (eBook, ePUB)

Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Writing the 9/11 Decade investigates the relation of the novel to reportage, and the role of both in shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to the September 11 attacks.

Journalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by the expectation that they would provide an immediate non-fiction response to 9/11. Beginning with an examination of the sometimes mawkish writing that emerged in the days after the attacks, Writing the 9/11 Decade traces the evolution of literary journalism - in writers such as Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam - into new methods of subsuming the disaster, while attempting to stand apart from it. It includes interviews with novelists such as Richard Ford, Amy Waldman and Kamila Shamsie, as well as the only longform interview granted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is himself a 9/11 survivor.

In assessing the novel's capacity to respond to and contain an unimagined traumatic event, Writing the 9/11 Decade stands as a contemporary history of the form.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501313219
• Artikelnr.: 48421664

Autorenporträt

Charlie Lee-Potter is a British journalist and broadcaster, as well as visiting tutor in English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford and Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK. She is a former research and teaching fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford and has taught in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, since 2008. She has presented many BBC Radio 4 news and current affairs programmes, including PM, The World at One, The World This Weekend, The World Tonight and the network's respected literature programme, Open Book. She has been a foreign correspondent and news reporter and has written and presented political documentaries for BBC television. She has also contributed to national newspapers and magazines, both as a literary critic and as a columnist and commentator.