Literature after 9/11

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Representing 9/11: Literature and Resistance, Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn Part One: Experiencing 9/11: Time, and the Incommensurable Event Chapter 1: Portraits of Grief: Details and the New Genres of Testimony, Nancy K. Miller Chapter 2: Foer, Spiegelman, and 9/11's Timely Traumas, Mitchum Huehls Chapter 3: Graphic Implosion: Politics, Time, and Value in Post-9/11 Comics, Simon Cooper and Paul Atkinson Chapter 4: 'Sometimes Things Disappear': Absence and Mutability in Colson Whitehead's The Colossus of New York, Stephanie Li Chapter 5: Witnessing 9/11: Art Spiegelman and the Persistence of Trauma, Richard Glejzer Part Two: 9/11 Politics and Representation Chapter 6: Seeing Terror, Feeling Art: Public and Private in Post-9/11 Literature, Michael Rothberg Chapter 7: 'We're not a friggin' girl band': September 11, Masculinity, and the British-American Relationship in David Hare's Stuff Happens and Ian McEwan's Saturday, Rebecca Carpenter Chapter 8: 'We're the culture that cried wolf': Discourse and Terrorism in Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, Lance Allen Rubin Chapter 9: Still Life: 9/11's Falling Bodies, Laura Frost Part Three: 9/11 and the Literary Tradition Chapter 10: Telling It Like It Isn't, David Simpson Chapter 11: Portraits 9/11/01: The New York Times and the Pornography of Grief, Simon Stow Chapter 12: Theater after 9/11, Robert Brustein Chapter 13: Real Planes and Imaginary Towers: Philip Roth's The Plot Against America as 9/11 Prosthetic Screen, Charles Lewis Chapter 14: Precocious Testimony: Poetry and the Uncommemorable, Jeffrey Gray Afterword: Imagination and Monstrosity, Robert Pinsky Contributors Index