Ground Zero Fiction - History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel. Habilitationsschrift

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Birgit Däwes
• Edition: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9783825359300
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-5930-0
• Pages: 497
• Poids: 678 g
• Thèmes: American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies; American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Updike, John, nine eleven, Elfter September, kollektive Erinnerung, Gedächtniskultur, DeLillo, Don, Powers, Richard, Foer, Jonathan Safran, Narrative und Gegennarrative, Traumaliteratur, Symbolik, historische /11. September, New York (i. d. Literatur), historische (Gegen-)Narrative, Gegenwartsliteratur /U.S.A.