Overview
- Focuses on the interplay of late-late capitalism and aesthetics
- Interdisciplinary content distinguishes it from other critical works on the subject
- Together the chapters contend that easily commodifiable and digestible aesthetic products exist as a paradox akin to the historical moment that produced them
- Contributions argue that to represent 9/11--to create some commemoration of it or response to it--artists and authors must observe changes and the lack thereof, and they must thereby engage with the paradoxes and chaos that characterize terror as an act that attempts to reorganize the world order while leaving parts of it in utter disorder
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Textual Representations of 9/11
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Toward an Imaging of 9/11
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Movie Representations, Tele-Visions, and a Web of 9/11
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About this book
Reviews
“In the middle of this mayhem, G. Fragopoulos and L. Naydan present an interesting edited book, which inviteswell-read and reputed scholars coming from different disciplines and stripes. … all chapters integrated in this must-read book, which is highly recommendable for scholars and policy makers interested in themes of terrorism, are orchestrated to stimulate further discussions around the “aesthetic of terrorism” and its intersection on our capitalist culture, a moot-point, which will deserve further scrutiny in the years to come.” (Maximiliano E. Korstanje, International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism Hospitality, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
George Fragopoulos is Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USA. His scholarly essays have appeared in PMLA, MELUS, the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, and the Journal of Modern Literature. His poetry has appeared in the journals House Organ, Momoware, and The Found Poetry Review.
Liliana M. Naydan is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Abington, USA. She researches contemporary American literature and rhetoric and composition, and her work has appeared in journals including The John Updike Review, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. She is the author of Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terror in Global Narrative
Book Subtitle: Representations of 9/11 in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism
Editors: George Fragopoulos, Liliana M. Naydan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40654-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40653-4Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82146-7Published: 11 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40654-1Published: 08 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: American Culture, Terrorism and Political Violence, Aesthetics