Terror in Global Narrative: Representations of 9/11 in the by George Fragopoulos, Liliana M. Naydan (eds.)

By George Fragopoulos, Liliana M. Naydan (eds.)

This is a suite of interdisciplinary essays that examines the ancient, political, and social importance of Sep 11. This assortment considers Sep 11 as an occasion located in the a lot higher old context of overdue late-capitalism, a paradoxical time during which American and capitalist hegemony exist as pervasive and but below precarious conditions. individuals to this assortment learn the ways that Sep 11 replaced either every thing and, while, not anything in any respect. They likewise research the consequences of 9-11 via various varied media and paintings types together with literature, movie, tv, and highway art.

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W. Norton & Company. Print. Žižek, Slavoj. Welcome to the Desert of the Real. London: Verso, 2002. Print.  Naydan In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, responses to the terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines flight 93 consisted predominantly of profound shock and deep sadness. As evidenced by an array of news reports, the atrocity seemed unfathomable to citizens of the globe. In Beijing, thousands brought funeral wreaths and hand-written sympathy notes to the US Embassy.

43 might engage in the socially responsible act of seeing and understanding why terrorists might want to attack the USA—but perhaps they did no such thing. Indeed, the significance of the moment of their collapse and the possible transformation that ensued or may eventually ensue out of that moment remains one left to subjective interpretation. Celebrating Death on 9/11 in Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country Whereas the smile of Hamid’s novel registers as particularly unsettling because Changez, as a Southwest Asian Other of Islamic heritage, functions as an unknown Other to both American readers who aim for liberal inclusivity and those who opt for racism and religious bigotry, the 9/11 celebrations of Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country look within America and Americanness to expose indecorum that is equally unsettling.

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