From Solidarity to Schisms

9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2702-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 126, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

From Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cilano, Cara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Ewa Lipska, trans. Margret Grebowicz: September 11, 2001
Cara Cilano: Introduction: From Solidarity to Schisms
Magali Cornier Michael: Writing Fiction in the Post-9/11 World: Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Brandon Kempner: “Blow the World Back Together”: Literary Nostalgia, 9/11, and Terrorism in Seamus Heaney, Chris Cleave, and Martin Amis
Ulrike Tancke: Uses and Abuses of Trauma in Post-9/11 Fiction and Contemporary Culture
Ana Cristina Mendes: “Artworks, Unlike Terrorists, Change Nothing”: Salman Rushdie and September 11
Henrike Lehnguth: Sleepers, Informants, and the Everyday: Theorizing Terror and Ambiguity in Benjamin Heisenberg’s Schläfer
Gavin Hicks: My Roommate the Terrorist: The Political Burden of September 11 in Elmar Fischer’s The Friend
Alison J. Murray Levine: Ghosts on the Skyline: Chris Marker’s France after 9/11
Carolyn A. Durham: Daring to Imagine: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World and Slimane Benaïssa’s La Dernière Nuit d’un damné
Silvia Schultermandl: Perspectival Adjustments and Hyper-Reality in 11’09”01
Cara Cilano: Manipulative Fictions: Democratic Futures in Pakistan
Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: Canadian Post-9/11 Worries
William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson: From Inch’Allah Dimanche to Sharia in Canada: Empire Management, Gender Representations, and Communication Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
Sofia Ahlberg: Within Oceanic Reach: The Effects of September 11 on a Drought-Stricken Nation
Nathanael O’Reilly: Government, Media, and Power in the Australian Novel since 9/11
Contributors
Index