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American literature --- psychotrauma's --- terrorisme --- anno 2000-2009 --- Attaques terroristes du 11 septembre, 2001, dans la littérature --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Psychisch trauma in de literatuur --- September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001, in literature --- Terroristische aanslagen, 11 september 2001, in de literatuur --- Trauma psychique dans la littérature --- American fiction --- Fiction --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- History and criticism --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature --- Influence --- 21st century --- September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001 --- DeLillo, Don --- Spiegelman, Art --- Foer, Jonathan --- Beigbeder, Frédéric --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- French literature
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Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic clichés and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic eventsand what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World, and John Updike's Terrorist. He scrutinizes how these writers affirm the humanity of the disoriented individual, as opposed to the cocksure killer or politician, and retranslate hesitation, stuttering, or stammering into a precarious act of defiance. Versluys also discusses works by Ian McEwan, Anita Shreve, Martin Amis, and Michael Cunningham, arguing for the novel's distinct power in rendering the devastation of 9/11.
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