Falling After 9/11 investigates the connections between violence, trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, Falling Man, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frederic Briegbeder's Windows on the World, and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center. 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.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781441122414
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208857097
Product Key Features
Book Title
Falling after 9/11: Crisis in American Art and Literature
Author
Dr. Aimee Pozorski
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
354g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Dr. Aimee Pozorski
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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