Search Results for 9/11

... of socialism and capitalism in the post-9/11 moment. These female characters drive change as well as navigate it, showing that gender is central to the creation, embodiment, and performance of knowledge. The focus on women protagonists as primary producers of a transnational knowledge—one that bridges US...

... under the characters’ feet . . . suddenly seemed very urgent to me” ( Clarke 2011 : 175). This urgency, generated by 9/11 but also by the pervasive sense of forgetting and unreality that made possible the election of George Bush to a second term, prompted him to create in this novel a world he has...

..., 2001 attacks. I argue, however, that it is precisely as a post-9/11 novel that Aloft demands to be read. Such a claim may seem counterintuitive. In his book After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11 (2011), Richard Gray charges that by and large, post-9/11 American novels merely...

... Arundhati Roy delivered a moving speech entitled “Come September” which addressed America’s relation- ship to global terrorism and our country’s involvement in projects of political violence in the decades leading up to 9/11. Adopting a stance that clearly challenged narratives of America’s political...

... Cold and Culture Warriors found a new fight after 9/11.4 But for others, awareness o f other kinds o f narra­ tives was encouraged by 9/11. From many o f the subsequent reactions o f the US government, including military action, there emerged a story o f divergence from righteousness...

.... Changes after 2001 have granted fresh urgency to the political critique that shaped the transnational turn in American studies. If a focus on politics emerged in the 1990s because the end of the Cold War provided a safer moment for ideological criticism, this is no longer the case after 9/11. As many...

... for their reconsideration. Most prominent is the postwar as a historical period (effectively 1945–89), defined by the political aesthetics of the Cold War, or even a protracted “interwar” (167), as proposed by contributor Paul K. Saint-Amour, with the nuclear detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the post-9/11 “war...

... space as possible. The ice might be thinner than one would like to think. —Art Spiegelman (qtd. in D’Arcy 3) In In the Shadow of No Towers, his most recent book of comic strips, Art Spiegelman draws connections between his experience of 9/11 and his survivor parents...

.... I began graduate study in 1999, year of the millennial panic and The Matrix; one year before the traumatizing 2000 national election and two years before 9/11. All of my favorite courses had “postmodernism” in their titles. There was—from three different professors—“The 60s and Postmodernism...

... their mode of life as exemplary, even normative. Accord­ ing to Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times, “Mr. McEwan has not only produced one of the most powerful pieces of post-9/11 fiction yet published, but also fulfilled that very primal mission of the novel: to show how we—a privileged few of us...

... the novel refuses to engage the complications of its main character’s hermaphroditism and instead allows an otherwise “open-ended” story “to turn out all right in the end,” Cohen sees it as indicative of the “desire for closure . . . common to many aspects of American culture after 9/11” (161...

... . Kendrick James . 2017 . “ The Terrible, Horrible Desire to Know: Post-9/11 Horror Remakes, Reboots, Sequels, and Prequels .” In American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 , edited by McSweeney Terence , 249 – 68 . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press . Lumsden Robin . 2009...

...). With exactness, Coetzee subscribes his authorial initial to one fictional Elizabeth, writing in the shadow of another fictional Elizabeth, four hundred years prior to the actual date of his writing in the name of both, as a way of commemorating the date of 9/11, and all the evil unleashed on the world...

... moment and our own post-9/11 US history, specifically events and policies that have emerged during the War on Terror. The Bush administration’s bold and cynical (and the Obama administration’s continued) deployment of the state of exception necessitates that we look back to the 1960s...

... also enables and performs the assemblage of speech, music, and sample. Alongside Ly’s lyrics, his songs variously sample and remix excerpts from the documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia , Roland Joffe’s The Killing Fields , President George W. Bush’s 9/11 address, oral histories...

... argued that many novels and career turns took their shape from the events of September 11, 2001. Bachner’s nuanced line on DeLillo is that 9/11 was less an opportunity for reconsideration of long-held beliefs than a confirmation of them and a new opportunity to demonstrate their usefulness. Reading...

... and the war on terror—as Blažević-Krietzman returns to the issue of European borders less than thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall to show how a new curtain is being drawn in the contemporary moment. The post-9/11 terrorist threat has occasioned the global reinforcement of borders and reminds...

... postwar suburbanization In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro , responding to the commonly repeated notion that America “lost her innocence” after 9/11, Philip Roth replied: “What innocence? From 1668 to 1865 this country had slavery; and from 1865 to 1955 was a society existing under...

... as “L’Horloge” invites counting, it keeps its own count: “Trois mille six cent fois par heure, la Seconde / Chuchote” (9–10) (“The Second whispers three thousand six hundred times an hour”). Similarly, in its exoskeletal “insecte” (11) the poem offers an emblem of its own segmentation. If in a certain sense...

... Brother–like surveillance tool that makes the narrator “perform” live during the interview (and it also doubles as the archive of his story to be developed later and circulated). The post 9/11 timeframe, the US invasion of Iraq, and the transposition of African memorabilia representing the Bosnian...