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A decade after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, over 160 novels by U.S.-American writers have re-enacted or revised the day we now call ‘9/11’. This study systematically charts the rich subgenre of Ground Zero Fiction by exploring its formal, structural, thematic, and functional dimensions. In a combination of typological survey and detailed analysis, both familiar texts (by Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, or John Updike) and lesser-known approaches (by writers such as Karen Kingsbury, Laila Halaby, Nicholas Rinaldi, Helen Schulman, or Ronald Sukenick) are investigated for their specific engagements with contemporary history. The American 9/11 novel, this volume argues, not only provides a productive testing ground for narrative crisis management, but it serves as an exemplary twenty-first century interface between historical and fictional representation, between ethical and aesthetic responsibilities, and between national and transnational formations of identity.

American fiction --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature. --- Roman américain --- Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, Etats-Unis dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 11 septembre 2001, Attentats du (États-Unis) --- Littérature américaine --- Dans la littérature --- Roman américain --- Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, Etats-Unis dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique.

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Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity , edited by Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes, explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. Contesting the earlier notion of a cataclysm that has changed ‘everything,’ and critically reflecting on American exceptionalism, the collection offers an inquiry into what has gone unchanged in terms of pre-9/11, post-9/11, and post-post-9/11 issues and what silences persist. How do literature and performative and visual arts negotiate this precarious balance of a pervasive discourse of change and emerging patterns of political, ideological, and cultural continuity?

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Influence --- Amerikaanse letterkunde. (Reeks) --- Engels. (Reeks) --- Amerikaans. (Reeks) --- Littérature anglaise. (Collection) --- Littérature américaine. (Collection) --- Anglais [Langue]. (Collection) --- Américain [Langue]. (Collection) --- Engelse letterkunde. (Reeks) --- Popular culture --- Culture --- Study and teaching.

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The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe. It extends discussions of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. In the contexts of the theoretical turns since the 1990's, including prominently the pictorial and the spatial turns, and in the wake of multicultural and international conceptions of American history, the contributions to the collection explore the cultural productivity and political implications of both officially endorsed memories and practices of oppositional remembrance. Reading sites of memory situated in or related to the United States as crossroads of transnational and intercultural remembering and commemoration manifests their possibly controversial function as platforms and agents in the processes of cultural exchange and political negotiation across the spatial, temporal, and ideological trajectories that inform American Studies as Atlantic Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Pacific Studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world's fairs as transnational sites of memory.

American literature --- History in literature. --- Collective memory in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Literature and history --- Collective memory and literature --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Literature and collective memory --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History. --- United States --- Historiography. --- In literature. --- In motion pictures. --- In art. --- American Memories. --- Commemorative Identity Construction. --- Cultural Memory. --- Politics of Remembrance.

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This series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of Anglophone literary texts. Each volume will introduce readers to current concepts and methodologies, as well as academic debates, by combining theory with text analysis and contextual anchoring.

Short stories, American --- History and criticism --- American short story. --- Fiction. --- Literary Criticism. --- Publishing. --- History and criticism.