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

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 t...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 126
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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
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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.