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Book SynopsisFrom Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.
Trade Review"[…] the breadth of analysis on display here provides a range of perspectives that defeats any monolithic thinking with regard to this monumental event." – Ian Copestake, Bamberg, in: ARCHIV 248/2 (2011), pp. 450-2 "Often the only “foreign” responses examined in collections about 9/11 are the British and French ones, but the excellent essays Cilano (Univ. Of North Carolina, Wilmington) has collected take in artistic responses in Germany, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, Canada, and Australia, among other countries. The collection is smartly written and arranged, with helpful abstracts at the head of each essay and a clear style throughout." – in: Choice 47/11 (August 2010)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Ewa Lipska, trans. Margret Grebowicz: September 11, 2001 Cara Cilano: Introduction: From Solidarity to Schisms Magali Cornier Michael: Writing Fiction in the Post-9/11 World: Ian McEwan’s Saturday Brandon Kempner: “Blow the World Back Together”: Literary Nostalgia, 9/11, and Terrorism in Seamus Heaney, Chris Cleave, and Martin Amis Ulrike Tancke: Uses and Abuses of Trauma in Post-9/11 Fiction and Contemporary Culture Ana Cristina Mendes: “Artworks, Unlike Terrorists, Change Nothing”: Salman Rushdie and September 11 Henrike Lehnguth: Sleepers, Informants, and the Everyday: Theorizing Terror and Ambiguity in Benjamin Heisenberg’s Schläfer Gavin Hicks: My Roommate the Terrorist: The Political Burden of September 11 in Elmar Fischer’s The Friend Alison J. Murray Levine: Ghosts on the Skyline: Chris Marker’s France after 9/11 Carolyn A. Durham: Daring to Imagine: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World and Slimane Benaïssa’s La Dernière Nuit d’un damné Silvia Schultermandl: Perspectival Adjustments and Hyper-Reality in 11’09”01 Cara Cilano: Manipulative Fictions: Democratic Futures in Pakistan Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: Canadian Post-9/11 Worries William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson: From Inch’Allah Dimanche to Sharia in Canada: Empire Management, Gender Representations, and Communication Strategies in the Twenty-First Century Sofia Ahlberg: Within Oceanic Reach: The Effects of September 11 on a Drought-Stricken Nation Nathanael O’Reilly: Government, Media, and Power in the Australian Novel since 9/11 Contributors Index
