Abstract
Journalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter traces the evolution of literary journalism by writers such as Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, and Mohsin Hamid into new fictional approaches to 9/11. Beginning with the sometimes mawkish writing that emerged in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, she assesses novelists' attempts to subsume the disaster, while standing apart from it. Writing the 9/11 Decade includes interviews with novelists such as Richard Ford, Amy Waldman, and Kamila Shamsie, as well as the only long-form interview granted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, himself a 9/11 survivor. In assessing the novel's capacity to respond to and contain an unimagined traumatic event, Writing the 9/11 Decade stands as a contemporary history of the form.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | New York and London |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Number of pages | 252 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-5013-1320-2 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- 9/11 fiction, terrorism, journalism, Paul Auster, Richard Ford, Mohsin Hamid, Kamila Shamsie, twin towers