BOOKS - Falling After 9 11: Crisis in American Art and Literature
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Falling After 9 11: Crisis in American Art and Literature
Author: Aimee Pozorski
Year: July 31, 2014
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.6 MB
Language: English
Year: July 31, 2014
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.6 MB
Language: English
Falling After 9 11 investigates the connections between violence, trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9 11 figures of falling in art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's novel, Falling Man , Diane Seuss's poem, and "Falling Man, and " Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , Frederic Briegbeder's Windows on the World , and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center.Falling After 9 11 argues that the apparent failure of these texts to register fully the trauma of the day in fact points to a larger problem in the national the problem of reference-of how to refer to falling-in the 21st century and beyond.