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Traumatische Texturen : der 11. September in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur
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ISBN: 9783837619539 3837619532 1322000158 3839419530 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript,

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Der 11. September gilt als epochale Zäsur, kulturelles Trauma und globales Medienereignis, das die Verknüpfung von Politik, Visualität und Geschichte verdeutlicht hat. Wie verhält sich die deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur angesichts der Medienkonkurrenz und der Inkommensurabilität dieses Ereignisses? Wie schreiben Autoren über die wirkmächtigen Bilderwelten und politischen Folgen der New Yorker Terroranschläge? Heide Reinhäckel untersucht in ihrem Buch die Literarisierungen des 11. September im Zeitraum 2001-2010 und analysiert die dabei zum Einsatz kommenden Themen und Textverfahren in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur. Sie liefert so - ein Jahrzehnt nach 9/11 - einen aktuellen Beitrag zur jüngsten deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Besprochen in: Germanistik, 53/1-2 (2012)

After the World Trade Center : rethinking New York City
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ISBN: 0203724402 1299288308 1135774889 9781135774882 0415934796 9780415934794 9780203724408 9781135774950 9781135775025 9780415946056 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While the city sifts through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey to control the right to rebuild ""ground zero."" Financial firms line up for sweetheart deals while proposals for memorials are gaining in appeal. In After the World Trade Center, eminent social critics Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin call on New York's most acclaimed urbanists to consider th


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The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 : Why the Official Final Report about 9/11 Is Unscientific and False
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ISBN: 162371026X Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Interlink Publishing,

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At 5:20 in the afternoon on 9/11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been struck by a plane and had fires on only a few floors. The reason for its collapse was considered a mystery. In August 2008, NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) issued its report on WTC 7, declaring that ""the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery"" and that ?science is really behind what we have said." Showing that neither of these claims is true, David Ray Griffin demonstrates that NIST is guilty of the most serious types of


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Against security : how we go wrong at airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger
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ISBN: 1400852331 1283571455 9786613883902 140084486X 9781400844869 069115581X 9780691155814 9780691163581 9781400852338 9781283571456 6613883905 0691163588 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these regimes of command-and-control not only annoy and intimidate but are counterproductive. Sociologist Harvey Molotch takes us through the sites, the gizmos, and the politics to urge greater trust in basic citizen capacities-along with smarter design of public spaces. In a new preface, he discusses abatement of panic and what the NSA leaks reveal about the real holes in our security.


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Illuminati.De l'industrie Rock à Walt Disney: les arcanes du satanisme
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ISBN: 9782952624527 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ariège, Laurent Glazy / La Librairie française / La  Maison du Salat


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The "image-event" in the early post-9/11 novel : literary representations of terror after September 11, 2001
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ISBN: 8323384916 8323333173 Year: 2012 Publisher: Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press,

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How can literature respond to a monumental event, unprecedented historically, politically and culturally, whose memory will forever be inseparable from its mass media coverage? How can writers represent what Jean Baudrillard called an "image-event"? In particular, what form can they use to convey the unspeakable - that was at the same time broadcast live across the globe? These questions are central to Ewa Kowal's comparative study of thirteen early post-9/11 novels. Written in four different Western countries between 2003 and 2007, during the now historical time of George W. Bush's "war on terror," the selected works provide the earliest literary reactions to the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks and/or their aftermath. Kowal examines them in a wider cultural context, focusing especially on audio-visual media, motifs of childhood and magical thinking as well as the destabilised division into reality and fiction. Offering an original reading of the whole body of work, the author places each analysed book on a scale according to its closeness to a terrorist attack, revealing a correspondence between the distance from the tragedy, the levels of danger and risk taken and the degree of formal (un)conventionality.


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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media
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ISBN: 9780195395068 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York, New York Oxford University Press, Inc.

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