Falling after 9/11: crisis in American art and literature

"Falling After 9/11 provides close readings of post 9/11 figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Richard Drew's famous ph...

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1. Verfasser: Pozorski, Aimee L. 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Bloomsbury 2014
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Zusammenfassung:"Falling After 9/11 provides close readings of post 9/11 figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center. Considered from the perspective of trauma theory, Falling After 9/11 argues that the apparent failure of these texts to register fully the trauma of the day in fact points to a larger problem in the national tradition: the problem of reference...of how to refer to falling...in the 21st century and beyond"..
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 158 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781441122414

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