Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31841-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 218, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity, edited by Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes, explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. Contesting the earlier notion of a cataclysm that has changed ‘everything,’ and critically reflecting on American exceptionalism, the collection offers an inquiry into what has gone unchanged in terms of pre-9/11, post-9/11, and post-post-9/11 issues and what silences persist. How do literature and performative and visual arts negotiate this precarious balance of a pervasive discourse of change and emerging patterns of political, ideological, and cultural continuity?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mohr, Dunja M.

Däwes, Birgit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Dunja M. Mohr, Dr. (PhD: University of Trier), is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Erfurt University, Germany. She has co-edited 9/11 as Catalyst: American and British Cultural Responses, a special issue of ZAA (2010), and published the award winning Worlds Apart: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias (McFarland, 2005).

Birgit Däwes, Dr. (PhD: University of Würzburg), is Professor of American Studies at Europa-University Flensburg, Germany. She published the internationally acclaimed Ground Zero Fiction: History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel (Winter, 2011) and guest-edited Narratives of Fundamentalism, a special issue of LWU (2014).