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Book SynopsisCatherine Morley is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. Her previous publications include
The Quest For Epic in Contemporary American Fiction (2009) and
Modern American Literature (2012).
Trade ReviewIn
9/11, Catherine Morley finds the making of a critical canon on the subject. * American Literary Scholarship *
[The book] makes important advances in the scholarship on post-9/11 literature ... The richness of this collection also raises further questions ... An essential resource for scholars interested in 9/11 and its literary response. * English *
Table of ContentsIntroduction (Catherine Morley, University of Leicester, UK) 1. Don DeLillo,
Falling Man (2007) (John Duvall, Purdue University, USA) 2. John Updike,
Terrorist (2006) (Mark Eaton, Azusa Pacific University, USA) 3. Laila Halaby,
West of the Jordan (2003) (Amal Talaat Abdelrazak, Alexandria University, Egypt) 4. Graphic Fictions: Art Spiegelman,
In the Shadow of No Towers (2004), Will Eisner et al,
9/11: Artists Respond (2002) and Alissa Torres,
American Widow (2008) (David Brauner, University of Reading, UK) 5. Jonathan Safran Foer,
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2004) (Debra Shostak, Wooster College, USA) 6. Jay MacInerney,
The Good Life (2006) and Ken Kalfus,
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006) (Kristian Versluys, University of Ghent, Belgium) 7. Colum McCann,
Let the Great World Spin (2009) (Hamilton Carroll, University of Leeds, UK) 8. Jonathan Franzen,
Freedom (2010) (Paul Jenner, University of Loughborough, UK) 9. American Poetry After 9/11 (Ann Keniston, Harvard University, USA) 10. Amy Waldman,
The Submission (Catherine Morley, University of Leicester, UK) Index
