9/11 in European Literature Negotiating Identities Against the Attac
This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national
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9/11 in European Literature
Svenja Frank Editor
9/11 in European Literature Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed
Editor Svenja Frank Promotionsprogramm Textwissenschaften Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-64208-6 ISBN 978-3-319-64209-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-64209-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017949457 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration © Ran Shauli Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
Introduction: 9/11 in European Literature 1 Svenja Frank Part I September 11 Seen Through European Media and Semiotic Theory 9/11: The Interpretation of Disaster as Disaster of Interpretation—An American Catastrophe Reflected in American and European Discourses 37 Rolf G. Renner The Wind of the Hudson. Gerhard Richter’s September (2005) and the European Perception of Catastrophe 61 Ulrich Kinzel ‘Burning from the Inside Out’: Let the Great World Spin (2009) 83 Eoin Flannery
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Part II Literary Translations of September 11 into Europe’s National Contexts Seeing Is Disbelieving: The Contested Visibility of 9/11 in France 105 Jean-Philippe Mathy Cultural and Historical Memory in English and German Discursive Responses to 9/11 131 Sandra Singer The Post-9/11 World in Three Polish Responses: Zagajewski, Skolimowski, Tochman 159 Ewa Kowal The Islamic World as Other in Oriana Fallaci’s “Trilogy” 181 Charles Burdett Part III Negotiating European Identity After September 11 Through the Double Other of the US and Islam National Identity and Literary Culture After 9/11: Pro-
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