Portraying 9/11 Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre
Heftet /
2011
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780786459506
Publisert
2011-09-13
Utgiver
McFarland & Co Inc
Vekt
331 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Dybde
9 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184
Biografisk notat
Véronique Bragard is associate professor in comparative literature at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Christophe Dony combines teaching and research activities at the Université de Liège, Belgium, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literatures. Warren Rosenberg is professor of English and chair of the English department at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.Commentators and artists attempting to represent the events of September 11, 2001, struggle to create meaning in the face of such powerful experiences. This collection of essays offers critical insights into the discourses that shape the memory of 9/11 in the narrative genres of comics, literature, film, and theatre. It examines historical, political, cultural, and personal meanings of the disaster and its aftermath through critical discussions of Marvel and New Yorker comics, American and British novels, Hollywood films, and the plays of Anne Nelson.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
VÉRONIQUE BRAGARD, CHRISTOPHE DONY and WARREN ROSENBERG
Part I: Comics
Covering 9/11: The New Yorker, Trauma Kitsch, and Popular Memory
TIMOTHY KRAUSE
Spandex Agonistes: Superhero Comics Confront the War on Terror
MATTHEW J. COSTELLO
“Whose Side Are You On?” The Allegorization of 9/11 in Marvel’s Civil War
STEPHAN PACKARD
Part II: Literature
September 11 and Cold War Nostalgia
AARON DEROSA
Don DeLillo’s Falling Man: Countering Post–9/11 Narratives of Heroic Masculinity
MAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL
Misplaced Anxieties: Violence and Trauma in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
ULRIKE TANCKE
The Mediated Trauma of September 11, 2001, in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and David Foster Wallace’s “The Suffering Channel”
MARC OXOBY
Part III: Performance
Terror and Mismemory: Resignifying September 11 in World Trade Center and United
GERRY CANAVAN
From Flying Man to Falling Man: 9/11 Discourse in Superman Returns and Batman Begins
DAN HASSLER-FOREST
Authenticating the Reel: Realism, Simulation, and Trauma in United
FRANCES PHEASANT-KELLY
Connecting in the Aftermath: Trauma, Performance, and Catharsis in the Plays of Anne Nelson
JAMES M. CHERRY
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
VÉRONIQUE BRAGARD, CHRISTOPHE DONY and WARREN ROSENBERG
Part I: Comics
Covering 9/11: The New Yorker, Trauma Kitsch, and Popular Memory
TIMOTHY KRAUSE
Spandex Agonistes: Superhero Comics Confront the War on Terror
MATTHEW J. COSTELLO
“Whose Side Are You On?” The Allegorization of 9/11 in Marvel’s Civil War
STEPHAN PACKARD
Part II: Literature
September 11 and Cold War Nostalgia
AARON DEROSA
Don DeLillo’s Falling Man: Countering Post–9/11 Narratives of Heroic Masculinity
MAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL
Misplaced Anxieties: Violence and Trauma in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
ULRIKE TANCKE
The Mediated Trauma of September 11, 2001, in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and David Foster Wallace’s “The Suffering Channel”
MARC OXOBY
Part III: Performance
Terror and Mismemory: Resignifying September 11 in World Trade Center and United
GERRY CANAVAN
From Flying Man to Falling Man: 9/11 Discourse in Superman Returns and Batman Begins
DAN HASSLER-FOREST
Authenticating the Reel: Realism, Simulation, and Trauma in United
FRANCES PHEASANT-KELLY
Connecting in the Aftermath: Trauma, Performance, and Catharsis in the Plays of Anne Nelson
JAMES M. CHERRY
About the Contributors
Index
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780786459506
Publisert
2011-09-13
Utgiver
McFarland & Co Inc
Vekt
331 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Dybde
9 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184