9/11 in European Literature

Reorients 9/11 literature within a European framework, showing the event's impact on contemporary writing and thought
Incorporates timely discussions of national, historical, and global trauma and memory
Positions writing from a wide variety of European countries in dialogue with each other to illuminate a greater narrative

Autorentext
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 20th and 21st century.

Inhalt

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.