Terror in Global Narrative: Representations of 9/11 in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: “Like an Artwork in Its Own Right”: Artistic Representations of 9/11 in a Late-Late Capitalist Age of Terror....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Enemy Within: Max Brooks’s World War Z and the Terror of Living Death....Pages 19-35
Indecorous Responses to 9/11 in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, and Jess Walter’s The Zero ....Pages 37-54
Redacted Tears, Aesthetics of Alterity: Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary ....Pages 55-76
A Bird in the Hand: Aesthetics and Capital in the Anthology Poetry After 9/11 ....Pages 77-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Narrative Wreckage: Terror, Illness, and Healing in the Post-9/11 Poethics of Claudia Rankine....Pages 95-117
On Claiming Responsibility: Banksy’s Art as Counter-Narrative to the Bureaucratization of the Imagination....Pages 119-138
The Return of Myth: Icons, Mythology, and the Universal Narrative of 9/11....Pages 139-156
Gerhard Richter’s September and the Politics of Ambivalence....Pages 157-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
We Now Interrupt this Program: Pre-Empting the Apocalypse in ABC’s Miracles ....Pages 175-189
Music Videos and Locker Room Humor: Rescue Me Reckons with Post-9/11 Hero Worship....Pages 191-208
Post-9/11 New York on Screen: Mourning, Surveillance, and the Arab Other in Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor ....Pages 209-230
Little Shop of … : Intersections of the 9/11 Memorial Museum Gift Shop, Capitalism, and Journalism....Pages 231-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-258