Tim Gauthier

9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness

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Produktbeschreibung

9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness analyzes recent works of fiction whose principal subject is the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9781793600660
• ISBN-10: 179360066X
• Artikelnr.: 57457423

Autorenporträt

Tim Gauthier is director of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction.
Chapter One. Empathy and Trauma: The Representation of the Falling People
in Art and Fiction
Chapter Two. Otherness as Counternarrative in the Graphic Novel:
Spiegelman, Rehr, Torres
Chapter Three. French Fiction and the Utopian Potential of 9/11
Chapter 4. "Toward these uncanny young men": Entering the Mind of the
Terrorist
Chapter Five. "Selective in Your Mercies": Privilege, Vulnerability, and
the Limits of Empathy in Ian McEwan's Saturday
Chapter Six. The Otherness of Islam in Amy Waldman's The Submission
Chapter Seven. Communal Trauma, Otherness, and the Wounded City: Hunt and
Lethem
Virtual or Communal Trauma?
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author