
Ground Zero Fiction
History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel
Birgit Däwes(Author)
Universitätsverlag Winter
1st Edition
Published in September 2011
Book
Hardback
XII, 497 pages
978-3-8253-5930-0 (ISBN)
Description
A decade after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, over 160 novels by U.S.-American writers have re-enacted or revised the day we now call '9/11'. This study systematically charts the rich subgenre of Ground Zero Fiction by exploring its formal, structural, thematic, and functional dimensions. In a combination of typological survey and detailed analysis, both familiar texts (by Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, or John Updike) and lesser-known approaches (by writers such as Karen Kingsbury, Laila Halaby, Nicholas Rinaldi, Helen Schulman, or Ronald Sukenick) are investigated for their specific engagements with contemporary history. The American 9/11 novel, this volume argues, not only provides a productive testing ground for narrative crisis management, but it serves as an exemplary twenty-first century interface between historical and fictional representation, between ethical and aesthetic responsibilities, and between national and transnational formations of identity.
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Series
Thesis
Professorial dissertation
2012
Universität Würzburg
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8253-5930-0 (9783825359300)
Schweitzer Classification