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Towering figures : reading the 9/11 archive /

This volume offers a critical analysis of a segment of American literary production surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. While focusing on the writing of Jonathan Safran Foer, Art Spiegelman, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon, the author locates this work within a larger 9/...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cvek, Sven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Costerus ; new ser., v. 190.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Reading the 9/11 Archive
  • 1 Enduring Event: Telling Stories around September 11
  • 2 Constant Replay: Community Building at the Site/Sight of Trauma
  • 3 Common Ground: Melodramas of 9/11
  • 4 Shock and Own: Mediation and Expropriation In the Shadow of No Towers
  • 5 Globalizing (the) Nation
  • 6 The Market Moves Us in Mysterious Ways: Don DeLillo on 9/11
  • 7 Cosmopolis: A Meditation on Deterritorialization
  • 8 Killing Politics: The Art of Recovery in Falling Man
  • 9 Good Mourning, America: Genealogies of Loss in Against the DayConclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index