9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed

ISBN-13: 9783319642086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 386 str.

Svenja Frank

Opis

This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. These elements within the texts contribute to the general negotiation of European identity before the backdrop of 9/11 and the subsequent international conflicts.

Spis treści

9/11 in European Literature. Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed.- 9/11: The Interpretation of Disaster as Disaster of Interpretation – an American Catastrophe Reflected in American and European Discourses.- The Wind of the Hudson: Gerhard Richter’s September (2005) and the European Perception of Catastrophe.- Burning from the inside out’: Let the Great World Spin (2009).- Seeing is Disbelieving: The Contested Visibility of 9/11 in France.- Cultural and Historical Memory in English and German Discursive Responses to 9/11.-  The Post-9/11 World in Three Polish Responses: Zagajewski, Skolimowski, Tochman.- The Islamic World as Other in Oriana Fallaci’s ‘Trilogy’.- National Identity and Literary Culture after 9/11:Pro- and Anti-Americanism in Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World(2003) and Thomas Hettche’s Woraus wir gemacht sind (2006).- The Mimicry of Dialogue: Thomas Lehr’s September. Fata Morgana (2010).- Europe and Its Discontents: Intra-European Violence in Dutch Literature after 9/11.- Tourist/Terrorist. Narrating Uncertainty in Early European Literature on Guantánamo.- Appendix.

O autorze

Svenja Frank, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, currently works on the meta-critical novel in contemporary German literature and has previously held teaching positions at the University of Freiburg and at Oxford. Her research interests include narrative and literary theory, intermediality and German-language literature of the 20^th and 21^st century.