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

"As the horrific events of September 11, 2001, slip deeper into the past, the significance of 9/11 remains a global cultural touchstone. Initially, filmmakers, writers, and other artists wrangled with its meaning, often relying on fantastical, ethnic, or exceptionalist themes to address the psy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Petrovic, Paul, 1982- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.