As the horrific events of September 11, 2001, slip deeper into the past, the significance of 9/11 remains a global cultural touchstone. Initially, filmmakers, writers, and other artists wrangled with its meaning, often relying on fantastical, ethnic, or exceptionalist themes to address the psychic dread of the terrorist attacks. Over time, however, more nuanced and socio-historical perspectives about 9/11 and its impact on America and the world have emerged. In Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television, prominent authors from a variety of disciplines demonstrate how emergent American and international texts expand upon and complicate the initial post-9/11 canon. Editor Paul Petrovic has assembled a collection of essays that broadens our understanding of how popular culture has addressed 9/11, particularly as it has evolved over time. Contributors bring fresh readings to popular novels, such as Jonathan Lethems Chronic City and Jonathan Franzens Freedom; films like Zero Dark Thirty and This Is the End; and television shows such as 24 and Homeland. Showcasing a diverse range of viewpoints, essays in this collection assess, among other topics, how African American identity is challenged by post-9/11 allegories; how superhero films foretell the inevitability of city-wide destruction by terrorists; and how shows like Breaking Bad problematize ideas of liberalism and masculinity. Though primarily aimed at scholars, Representing 9/11 seeks to engage readers interested in how various forms of media have interpreted the events and aftermath of the terrorist attacks in 2001.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Paul Petrovic COUNTER-REACTIONS AGAINST REALISM: Chapter 1: Jess Walter's The Zero: Satirizing the 'Desert of the Real' Marjorie Worthington Chapter 2: Memorializing Post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City Jeffrey Severs Chapter 3: Never Give a Good Politician Time to Pray: Stephen King's Treatment of Political Power and Community Involvement in Under the Dome Tamara Watkins Chapter 4: Which Came First; Zombies or the Plague?: Colson Whitehead's Zone One as Post-9/11 Allegory Anne Canavan Chapter 5: A Eulogy of the Urban Superhero: The Everyday Destruction of Space in the Superhero Film James M. Gilmore PERCEPTION, IDEOLOGY AND COMMUNITY: Chapter 6: Paucity of Imagination: Stereotypes, Public Debates, and the Limits of Ideology in Amy Waldman's The Submission Amir Khadem Chapter 7: Strangers in a Homeland: Veterans and Innocensus in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and The Yellow Birds Damon Barta Chapter 8: Our New Customer is the Bush Administration? : Questioning Cultural Identity and Governmental Surveillance in Allegra Goodman's The Cookbook Collector Paul Petrovic Chapter 9: I'm the Motherfucker Who Found This Place : Locating Post-bin Laden America in Zero Dark Thirty Lloyd Isaac Vayo From 24 to Homeland: the Shift in America's Perception of Terrorism-Deborah Pless MASCULINITY, MARGINALIZATION, MELANCHOLY, AND HYPER-PROTECTION: Chapter 10: The Danger that Keeps Knocking: Representations of Post-9/11 Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad Shana Kraynak Chapter 11: Post-Closet and Post-9/11: The Bromantic Imagination of Disaster in This Is the End and I'm So Excited! Ken Feil Chapter 12: The Human Barnyard: Rhetoric, Identification, and Symbolic Representation in Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana Elizabeth Lowry Chapter 13: The Pain and Prison of Post-9/11 Parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom Megan Cannella Chapter 14: How to Get to 9/11: Teju Cole's Melancholic Fiction Ariela Freedman Chapter 15: Poetic Responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's The School Among the Ruins Lin Knutson INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES: Chapter 16: 'Some sense of Bridge-making': Exploring the Relationship between America and Pakistan in Moshin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Mira Nair's Film Adaptation Laura Findlay Chapter 17: Haunting Cartographies: Mapping the Aftermath in Joachim Trier's Olso, 31st August Danica van de Velde Index About the Contributors
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