About the Book
This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the historical, political, and social significance of 9/11. This collection considers 9/11 as an event situated within the much larger historical context of late late-capitalism, a paradoxical time in which American and capitalist hegemony exist as pervasive and yet under precarious circumstances. Contributors to this collection examine the ways in which 9/11 changed both everything and, at the same time, nothing at all. They likewise examine the implications of 9/11 through a variety of different media and art forms including literature, film, television, and street art.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. “Like an Artwork in Its Own Right”: Artistic Representations of 9/11 in a Late-Late Capitalist Age of Terror, by Liliana M. Naydan and George Fragopoulos.- Part I.Textual Representations of 9/11.- 1.The Enemy Within: Max Brooks’ World War Z and the Terror of Living Death,” by Scott Ortolano.- 2.“Indecorous Responses to 9/11 in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, and Jess Walter’s The Zero,” by Liliana M. Naydan.- 3.“Redacted Tears, Aesthetics of Alterity: Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary,” by Erin Trapp.- 4.“A Bird in the Hand: Aesthetics and Capital in the anthology Poetry After 9/11,” by Scott Cleary.- Part II.Toward an Imaging of 9/11.- 5.“Narrative Wreckage: Terror, Illness, and Healing in the Post-9/11 ‘Poethics’ of Claudia Rankine,” by Mark A. Tabone.- 6.“On Claiming Responsibility: Against the Bureaucratization of the Imagination and Banksy’s New York Residency,” by George Fragopoulos.- 7.“A Story as Old as Time: Icons, Myths, and the Universal Narrative of 9/11,” by Ruth Knepel.- 8.“Gerhard Richter’s September and the Politics of Ambivalence,” by Mafalda Dâmaso.- Part III.Movie Representations, Tele-Visions, and a Web of 9/11.- 9.“We Now Interrupt this Program: Pre-Empting Apocalypse in ABC’s Miracles,” by Jason Ramírez.- 10.“Music Videos and Locker Room Humor: Rescue Me Reckons with Post-9/11 Hero Worship,” by Shelley Manis.- 11.“Post-9/11 New York on Screen: Mourning, Surveillance, and the Arab Other in Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor,” by Elizabeth Toohey.- 12.“Little Shop of … : Intersections of the 9/11 Memorial Gift Shop, Capitalism, and Journalism,” by Alison Novak.
About the Author :
George Fragopoulos is Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USA. His scholarly essays have appeared in PMLA, MELUS, the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, and the Journal of Modern Literature. His poetry has appeared in the journals House Organ, Momoware, and The Found Poetry Review.
Liliana M. Naydan is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Abington, USA. She researches contemporary American literature and rhetoric and composition, and her work has appeared in journals including The John Updike Review, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. She is the author of Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror.
Review :
“G. Fragopoulos and L. Naydan present an interesting edited book, which invites well-read and reputed scholars coming from different disciplines and stripes. … all chapters integrated in this must-read book, which is highly recommendable for scholars and policy makers interested in themes of terrorism, are orchestrated to stimulate further discussions around the ‘aesthetic of terrorism’ and its intersection on our capitalist culture, a moot-point, which will deserve further scrutiny in the years to come.” (International Journal of Risk and Contingency Managementm, Vol. 7 (2), April – June, 2018)
“In the middle of this mayhem, G. Fragopoulos and L. Naydan present an interesting edited book, which inviteswell-read and reputed scholars coming from different disciplines and stripes. … all chapters integrated in this must-read book, which is highly recommendable for scholars and policy makers interested in themes of terrorism, are orchestrated to stimulate further discussions around the “aesthetic of terrorism” and its intersection on our capitalist culture, a moot-point, which will deserve further scrutiny in the years to come.” (Maximiliano E. Korstanje, International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism Hospitality, 2017)
