Radical Planes?: 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity (Costerus New Series)

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? Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors 1 Transnational Dimensions of 9/11: An Introduction Part 1: Positionings of 9/11 2 Public Culture after 9/11 and Peter Josyph’s Liberty Street 3 The Coincidence of Historical Fiction: “Code-Orange” Reading after 9/11 4 Philosophical and Literary Dialogues in a Time of Terror Part 2: 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity 5 Terror as Catalyst? Negotiations of Silences, Perspectives, and Complicities in Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Ali Smith’s The Accidental, and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist 6 Letters to Osama and Terrorist Mindsets: Coming to Terms with 9/11 in Chris Cleave’s Incendiary and John Updike’s Terrorist 7 Homeland Security and Transmigration in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker 8 Male Domesticity and the 9/11-Novel: Jay McInerney’s The Good Life Part 3: 9/11, the Performative, and the Visual 9 “This is My Country, Too, You Know!” Intercultural Encounters in Post-9/11 Arab American Drama 10 “You Ever Think about the Term ‘Homeland Security’?” Todd Field’s Adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s Little Children 11 9/11 as Memento Mori: Still-Life and Image in Don Delillo’s Ekphrastic Fiction Index