Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-420-3907-0
Verlag: Editions Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 208, 8 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 419 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction explores fiction that experiments in innovative ways with formal strategies so as to engage with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and their repercussion. This study demonstrates how certain novels create narratives about the 9/11 attacks that refuse to shy away from exploring and representing their difficult and problematic aspects and, in fact, insist on doing so as the only means of coming to terms with the events in all their cultural and historical specificity. As such, these texts implicitly advocate a notion of literature as a dynamic negotiation of the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, politics, culture, and history. Indeed, they assert and reassert the viability of literature as a mode of critical inquiry that can engage and contribute to the socio-political debates of its time and to the construction of narratives about significant historical and cultural events.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Michael, Magali Cornier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction

Chapter 1: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World
Chapter 2: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Chapter 3: Jess Walter’s The Zero
Chapter 4: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
Chapter 5: Ian McEwan’s Saturday

Bibliography
Index