Representing 9/11 : trauma, ideology, and nationalism in literature, film, and television


edited by Paul Petrovic
Bok Engelsk 2015
Omfang
xvii, 231 sider
Opplysninger
Introduction / Paul Petrovic -- Counter-reactions against realism. Jess Walter's The zero: satirizing the "desert of the real" / Marjorie Worthington -- Memorializing post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic city / Jeffrey Severs -- Never give a good politician time to pray: Stephen King's treatment of political power and community involvement in Under the dome / Tamara Watkins -- Which came first: zombies or the plague?: Colson Whitehead's Zone one as Post-9/11 allegory / Anne Canavan -- A eulogy of the urban superhero: the everyday destruction of space in the superhero film / James M. Gilmore -- Perception, ideology and community. Paucity of imagination: stereotypes, public debates, and the limits of ideology in Amy Waldman's The submission / Amir Khadem -- Strangers in a homeland: veterans and "innocensus" in Billy Lynn's Long halftime walk and The yellow birds / Damon Barta-- "Our new customer is the Bush administration": questioning cultural identity and governmental surveillance in Allegra Goodman's The cookbook collector / Paul Petrovic -- "I'm the motherfucker who found this place": locating post-Bin Laden America in Zero dark thirty / Lloyd Isaac Vayo -- From 24 to Homeland: the shift in America's perception of terrorism / Deborah Pless -- Masculinity, marginalization, melancholy, and hyper-protection: the danger that keeps knocking: representations of post-9/11 masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking bad / Shana Kraynak -- Post-closet and post-9/11: the bromantic imagination of disaster in This is the end and I'm so excited! / Ken Feil -- The human barnyard: rhetoric, identification, and symbolic representation in Giannina Braschi's United States of banana / Elizabeth Lowry -- The pain and prison of post-9/11 parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom / Megan Cannella -- How to get to 9/11: Teju Cole's melancholic fiction / Ariela Freedman-- Poetic responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's "The school among the ruins" / Lin Knutson -- International responses. "Some sense of bridge-making": exploring the relationship between America and Pakistan in Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and Mira Nair's film adaptation / Laura Findlay -- Haunting cartographies: mapping the aftermath in Joachim Trier's Oslo, 31st August / Danica Van De Velde.
Emner
Bigelow, Kathryn , 1951- : Zero dark thirty : (NO-TrBIB)98014070
Cole, Teju , 1975- : (NO-TrBIB)11068580
Franzen, Jonathan , 1959- : Freedom : (NO-TrBIB)97025413
Gilligan, Vince , 1967- : Breaking bad : (NO-TrBIB)15007895
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