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"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 the September 11 attacks. Journalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by the expectation that they would provide an immediate non-fiction response to 9/11. Beginning with an examination of the sometimes mawkish writing that emerged in the days after the attacks, Writing the 9/11 Decade traces the evolution of literary journalism -- in writers such as Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam -- into new methods of subsuming the disaster, while attempting to stand apart from it. It includes interviews with novelists such as Richard Ford, Amy Waldman and Kamila Shamsie, as well as the only longform interview granted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is himself a 9/11 survivor. 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

American fiction --- Journalism and literature. --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 in literature. --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- History and criticism.

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The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conceptions of the causes, motivations, dynamics, and aftermath of terrorist violence. By bringing together experts from various fields and by combining case studies of works from diverse periods and national literatures, the volume Literature and Terrorism chooses a diachronic and comparative perspective. It is interested in the specific cultural work performed by narrative and dramatic literature in the face of terrorism, focusing on literature's ambivalent relationship to other, competing modes of discourse.

Terrorism in literature. --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature --- Terrorisme --- 11 septembre 2001, Attentats du (États-Unis) --- Dans la littérature --- Terrorism in literature --- Dans la littérature.

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This is a comprehensive study of the first decade of literary representations of 9/11, moving from Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers (2003) to Amy Waldman's The Submission (2012). It traces the way literature has dealt with an event that continues to shape world conflict and resonate prominently in the American imagination, and argues that the corpus of literary fiction discussing 9/11 is characterized by a fundamental sense of conflictedness related to the tensions between trauma or mourning and political imperatives. Additionally, this book assesses an equally divided body of criti

American fiction --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature. --- Terrorism in literature. --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- History and criticism. --- Influence.

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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, on television --- Influence

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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