Falling After 9/11

Crisis in American Art and Literature

AvAimee Pozorski

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Falling After 9/11 investigates the connections between violence, trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Briegbeder's Windows on the World, and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center.Falling After 9/11 argues that the apparent failure of these texts to register fully the trauma of the day in fact points to a larger problem in the national tradition: the problem of reference—of how to refer to falling—in the 21st century and beyond.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-12-18
Mått:140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781441122414

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Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, USA, where she teaches contemporary literature and trauma theory. She is the current President of The Philip Roth Society.

Recensioner i media

In this tightly focused study, Aimee Pozorski draws out the links between trauma, aesthetics and memory, and tracks how the censored image of the falling man continues to haunt the American imagination.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Falling After 9/11: Crisis in American Art and LiteratureChapter 1 Gravity, Gravitas, Grave: How to Refer to FallingChapter 2 Beyond the Literal: The Falling Man and Moral FailingChapter 3 Journalism’s Falling Man: Documentation and Truth-TellingChapter 4 Don DeLillo’s Performance Art: Failure Bears Witness to FallingChapter 5 The Poetics of Falling: The Lyrical Laments of Kennedy and SeussChapter 6 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Historical Reverberation and Scientific Invention in Jonathan Safran Foer’s 9/11 IconotextEpilogue Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: Parrish’s 9/11 Mural Revisited Works Cited Index