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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin Randall |
ISBN: | 9780748691197 0748691197 9780748638529 0748638520 |
OCLC Number: | 1034805576 |
Notes: | "First published in hardback by Edinburgh University Press 2011"--Title page verso |
Description: | 174 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: eyewitnesses, conspiracies and baudrillard -- "Beyond belief": McEwan, DeLillo and 110 stories -- "Total malignancy ... militant irony": Martin Amis, The second plane -- "You know how it ends": metafiction and 9/11 in Windows on the world -- "A wing and a prayer": Simon Armitage, Out of the blue -- "A certain blurring of the facts": Man on wire and 9/11 -- "He is consoling, she is distraught": men and women and 9/11 in The mercy seat and The guys -- "Everything seemed to mean something": signifying 9/11 in Don DeLillo's Falling man -- Conclusion: "I am a lover of America." |
Other Titles: | September 11 and the literature of terror |
Responsibility: | Martin Randall. |
Abstract:
Discusses works by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, Simon Armitage and Mohsin Hamid in relation to the specific problems of writing about such a visually spectacular 'event' that has had enormous global implications. Focusing on 9/11, this book offers an overview of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermath.
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