Title: Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity
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?
Subjects: Literature, history and criticism, American fiction, History and criticism, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, Influence, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art, Collective memory and literature, Narration (Rhetoric), September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in art, September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature