From solidarity to schisms : : 9/11 and after in fiction and film from outside the US / / edited by Cara Cilano.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 126
• TeilnehmendeR: Cilano, Cara.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 126.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

From Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Ewa Lipska translated by Margret Grebowicz -- From Solidarity to Schisms / Cara Cilano -- Writing Fiction in the Post-9/11 World: Ian McEwan’s Saturday / Magali Cornier Michael -- “Blow the World Back Together”: Literary Nostalgia, 9/11, and Terrorism in Seamus Heaney, Chris Cleave, and Martin Amis / Brandon Kempner -- Uses and Abuses of Trauma in Post-9/11 Fiction and Contemporary Culture / Ulrike Tancke -- “Artworks, Unlike Terrorists, Change Nothing”: Salman Rushdie and September 11 / Ana Cristina Mendes -- Sleepers, Informants, and the Everyday: Theorizing Terror and Ambiguity in Benjamin Heisenberg’s Schläfer / Henrike Lehnguth -- My Roommate the Terrorist: The Political Burden of September 11 in Elmar Fischer’s The Friend / Gavin Hicks -- Ghosts on the Skyline: Chris Marker’s France after 9/11 / Alison J. Murray Levine -- Daring to Imagine: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World and Slimane Benaïssa’s La Dernière Nuit d’un damné / Carolyn A. Durham -- Perspectival Adjustments and Hyper-Reality in 11’09”01 / Silvia Schultermandl -- Manipulative Fictions: Democratic Futures in Pakistan / Cara Cilano -- Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: Canadian Post-9/11 Worries / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- From Inch’Allah Dimanche to Sharia in Canada: Empire Management, Gender Representations, and Communication Strategies in the Twenty-First Century / William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson -- Within Oceanic Reach: The Effects of September 11 on a Drought-Stricken Nation / Sofia Ahlberg -- Government, Media, and Power: Terrorism in the Australian Novel since 9/11 / Nathanael O’Reilly -- Contributors / Cara Cilano -- Index / Cara Cilano.