After the fall
Subtitle: American literature since 9/11
By: Richard Gray
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Blackwell manifestos; Blackwell manifestos
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780470657928
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Nationalism in literature; Influence; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Other titles: American literature since 9/11
Description: The leading European scholar on American literature examines the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on United States culture and literature.  In addition to developing an argument about literature and trauma, Gray places U.S. writing in the context of America's transformed position in a world characterized by political, economic, and military crisis; transnational drift; the resurgence of religious fundamentalism; and the apparent triumph of global capitalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: After the fall; title: Imagining disaster; title: Imagining crisis; title: Imagining the transnational; title: Imagining the crisis in drama and poetry.