Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading A World Out Of Joint

From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and King Lear, among others. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 9 1 Tragic Events and the Idea of Tragedy......Page 10 2 Lamenting 9/11......Page 30 3 The Dogs of War......Page 56 4 Shooting Conflict......Page 84 5 The Year of Revolutions......Page 110 6 Claiming Asylum......Page 136 7 Hamartia in the Anthropocene......Page 162 Coda: Figuring Tragedy......Page 190 Notes......Page 193 Acknowledgements......Page 225 Index......Page 227