Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity
Publisher: BRILL; Brill/Rodopi; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789004318410
Subjects: Literature, history and criticism
Description: Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. Contesting the earlier notion of a cataclysm that has changed "everything," and critically reflecting on American exceptionalism, the collection offers an inquiry into what has gone unchanged in terms of pre-9/11, post-9/11, and post-post-9/11 issues and what silences persist. How do literature and performative and visual arts negotiate this precarious balance of a pervasive discourse of change and emerging patterns of political, ideological, and cultural continuity?