After the fall : American literature since 9/11 / Richard Gray.
Material type: TextSeries: Blackwell manifestosPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 224 pages .)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781444395860
- 1444395866
- 144439584X
- 9781444395846
- 1283408333
- 9781283408332
- 9780470657928
- 0470657928
- American literature since 9/11
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
- American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Nationalism in literature
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American literature
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Nationalism in literature
- 2000-2099
- 810.9/006 22
- PS231.S47 G73 2011
Front Matter -- After the Fall -- Imagining Disaster -- Imagining Crisis -- Imagining the Transnational -- Imagining the Crisis in Drama and Poetry -- Works Cited -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis Develops a timely and provocative argument about literature and trauma Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere Places U.S. writing in the context of the transformed position of the U.S. in a world characterized by political, economic, and military crisis; transn.
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