| Description |
1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Richard Ford and Ian McEwan: transactors and redeemers -- Narratives of retrogenesis and abstraction -- Paul Auster: after the past -- The long view -- The end of the decade -- Coda: in the realm of the real. |
| Summary |
Writing the 9/11 Decade" investigates the relation of the novel to reportage, and the role of both in shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to 9/11. Journalist, academic and literary critic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by the expectation that they would provide an immediate non-fiction response to the September 11 attacks. Jonathan Lethem expressed the plaintive view that 'most of the novelists in New York were asked by one magazine or another to write something, and to me it seems our voices, at that moment, blended into one vast impotent scream'. Beginning with an examination of the sometimes mawkish literary journalism that emerged in the days after the attacks, Writing the 9/11 Decade traces its evolution-in writers such as Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Mohsin Hamid, and Nadeem Aslam-into new literary methods of subsuming the disaster, while attempting to stand apart from it. In assessing the novel's capacity to respond to and contain an unimagined traumatic event, "Writing the 9/11 Decade" stands as a contemporary history of the form. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature. |
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Press coverage.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) |
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Journalism and literature.
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Journalism and literature. |
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Press coverage. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lee-Potter, Charlie author. Writing the 911 decade. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 9781501313196 (DLC) 2016017968 |
| ISBN |
9781501313226 (electronic book) |
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1501313223 (electronic book) |
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9781501313219 |
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1501313215 |
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9781501313196 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1501313193 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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