Gray After the Fall

American Literature Since 9/11
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9584-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature.
* Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis
* Develops a timely and provocative arguement about literature and trauma
* Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere
* Places U.S. writing in the context of the transformed position of the U.S. in a world characterized by political, economic, and military crisis; transnational drift; the resurgence of religious fundamentalism; and the apparent triumph of global capitalism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
1 After the Fall 1
2 Imagining Disaster 21
3 Imagining Crisis 51
4 Imagining the Transnational 85
5 Imagining the Crisis in Drama and Poetry 145
Works Cited 193
Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Gray is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and former Distinguished Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the United States. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award-winning Writing the South (Ideas of an American Region (1986) and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (1994). His History of American Literature is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.