TY - BOOK ID - 78716656 TI - Narrative innovation in 9/11 fiction AU - Michael, Magali Cornier AU - Bergshoeff, Aart Jan PY - 2014 VL - 208 SN - 9401211892 1336099003 9781336099005 9789401211895 9789042039070 9042039078 PB - Amsterdam, Netherlands New York, New York DB - UniCat KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature. KW - Foer, Jonathan Safran, KW - Фоер, Джонатан Сафран, KW - ספרן פויר, ג׳ונתן KW - פויר, ג'ונתן ספרן, KW - Safran Foer, Jonathan, 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 literature KW - Фоер, Джонатан Сафран UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78716656 AB - Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction explores fiction that experiments in innovative ways with formal strategies so as to engage with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and their repercussion. This study demonstrates how certain novels create narratives about the 9/11 attacks that refuse to shy away from exploring and representing their difficult and problematic aspects and, in fact, insist on doing so as the only means of coming to terms with the events in all their cultural and historical specificity. As such, these texts implicitly advocate a notion of literature as a dynamic negotiation of the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, politics, culture, and history. Indeed, they assert and reassert the viability of literature as a mode of critical inquiry that can engage and contribute to the socio-political debates of its time and to the construction of narratives about significant historical and cultural events. ER -