After the Fall - American Literature Since 9/11
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After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature.
- Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis
- Develops a timely and provocative arguement about literature and trauma
- Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere
- Places U.S. writing in the context of the transformed position of the U.S. in a world characterized by political, economic, and military crisis; transnational drift; the resurgence of religious fundamentalism; and the apparent triumph of global capitalism
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Richard Gray is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and former Distinguished Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the United States. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award-winning Writing the South (Ideas of an American Region (1986) and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (1994). His History of American Literature is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.
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Acknowledgments ix
1 After the Fall 1
2 Imagining Disaster 21
3 Imagining Crisis 51
4 Imagining the Transnational 85
5 Imagining the Crisis in Drama and Poetry 145
Works Cited 193
Index 211
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“There an amazing richness of the material Richard Gray covers in. . . After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11After the Fall is skillfully structured and convincingly argued.” (Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 1 October 2014)
"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 January 2012)