Terror in Global Narrative [electronic resource] : Representations of 9/11 in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism /
Fragopoulos, George.editor.
Naydan, Liliana M.editor.
This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the historical, political, and social significance of 9/11. This collection considers 9/11 as an event situated within the much larger historical context of late late-capitalism, a paradoxical time in which American and capitalist hegemony exist as pervasive and yet under precarious circumstances. Contributors to this collection examine the ways in which 9/11 both changed everything and, at the same time, nothing at all. They likewise examine the implications of 9/11 through a variety of different media and art forms including literature, film, television, and street art.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Introduction. “Like an Artwork in Its Own Right”: Artistic Representations of 9/11 in a Late-Late Capitalist Age of Terror, by Liliana M. Naydan and George Fragopoulos -- Part I.Textual Representations of 9/11 -- 1.The Enemy Within: Max Brooks’ World War Z and the Terror of Living Death,” by Scott Ortolano -- 2.“Indecorous Responses to 9/11 in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, and Jess Walter’s The Zero,” by Liliana M. Naydan -- 3.“Redacted Tears, Aesthetics of Alterity: Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary,” by Erin Trapp -- 4.“A Bird in the Hand: Aesthetics and Capital in the anthology Poetry After 9/11,” by Scott Cleary -- Part II.Toward an Imaging of 9/11 -- 5.“Narrative Wreckage: Terror, Illness, and Healing in the Post-9/11 ‘Poethics’ of Claudia Rankine,” by Mark A. Tabone -- 6.“On Claiming Responsibility: Against the Bureaucratization of the Imagination and Banksy’s New York Residency,” by George Fragopoulos -- 7.“A Story as Old as Time: Icons, Myths, and the Universal Narrative of 9/11,” by Ruth Knepel -- 8.“Gerhard Richter’s September and the Politics of Ambivalence,” by Mafalda Dâmaso -- Part III.Movie Representations, Tele-Visions, and a Web of 9/11 -- 9.“We Now Interrupt this Program: Pre-Empting Apocalypse in ABC’s Miracles,” by Jason Ramírez -- 10.“Music Videos and Locker Room Humor: Rescue Me Reckons with Post-9/11 Hero Worship,” by Shelley Manis -- 11.“Post-9/11 New York on Screen: Mourning, Surveillance, and the Arab Other in Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor,” by Elizabeth Toohey -- 12.“Little Shop of … : Intersections of the 9/11 Memorial Gift Shop, Capitalism, and Journalism,” by Alison Novak.
This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the historical, political, and social significance of 9/11. This collection considers 9/11 as an event situated within the much larger historical context of late late-capitalism, a paradoxical time in which American and capitalist hegemony exist as pervasive and yet under precarious circumstances. Contributors to this collection examine the ways in which 9/11 both changed everything and, at the same time, nothing at all. They likewise examine the implications of 9/11 through a variety of different media and art forms including literature, film, television, and street art.
United States-Study and teaching.
Terrorism.
Aesthetics.
American Culture.
Terrorism and Political Violence.
Aesthetics.