TY - BOOK ID - 77937150 TI - Towering figures : reading the 9/11 archives PY - 2011 VL - 190 SN - 1283250462 9786613250469 9401200769 9789401200769 9781283250467 9789042033788 9042033789 9042033789 6613250465 PB - Amsterdam New York : Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature. KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Literature, Modern. KW - Modern literature KW - Arts, Modern KW - Artistic impact KW - Artistic influence KW - Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Literary impact KW - Literary influence KW - Literary tradition KW - Tradition (Literature) KW - Art KW - Influence (Psychology) KW - Literature KW - Intermediality KW - Intertextuality KW - Originality in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) KW - 2000-2099 KW - 820 "20" KW - 820 "20" Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 KW - Engelse literatuur--21e eeuw. Periode 2000-2099 KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media. KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 KW - Mass media KW - Influence. KW - 11 septembre 2001, Attentats du (États-Unis) KW - Littérature américaine KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Influence KW - Literature - 21st century - History and criticism KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937150 AB - This volume offers a critical analysis of a segment of American literary production surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. While focusing on the writing of Jonathan Safran Foer, Art Spiegelman, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon, the author locates this work within a larger 9/11 cultural archive. The book proceeds by way of a series of thematic leaps in order to unearth the active entanglement of the event with systems of meaning and power that create the conditions for its emergence and understanding. The main problem of such an approach consists in articulating the three-fold relation at the heart of the archive in which issues of traumatic loss, affect, and politics appear as central: between the historical event, its cultural imprint, and the wider social system. In order to grasp these fundamental relations, the author resorts to a layered interpretive framework and engages a number of theoretical protocols, from psychoanalysis and nationalism studies to philosophy of history, world-system theory, and the heterogeneous critical practices of American Studies. Coming from a non-US Americanist perspective, this contribution to the scholarly production about 9/11 concentrates on trauma as a problem in the conceptualization the event, insists on globalization as its crucial context, and argues for a historical materialist approach to the 9/11 archive. ER -