• ISBN13: 9780748691197
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Edinburgh UP
• Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh
• Publication Date: January 1, 2014
• Pages: 184
• Original Price: GBP 23.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 273 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): American / General, Aesthetics, and Terrorism

From the Back Cover
AUTHOR APPROVED Explores the fiction, poetry, theatre and cinema that have represented the 9/11 attacks Works by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, Simon Armitage and Mohsin Hamid are discussed in relation to the specific problems of writing about such a visually spectacular 'event' that has had enormous global implications.Other chapters analyse initial responses to 9/11, the intriguing tensions between fiction and non-fiction, the challenge of describing traumatic history and the ways in which the terrorist attacks have been discussed culturally in the decade since September 11. Key Features * Contributes to the growing literature on 9/11, presenting an over-view of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermath * Focus on Don DeLillo: adds to the literature surrounding this major American novelist * Focus on Martin Amis: adds to the growing critical work on this much discussed British novelist and essayist * Man on Wire: provides a critical analysis of this Oscar winning film regarding its oblique references to 9/11 Martin Randall is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. His PhD dealt with literary representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary British Fiction.

Randall, Martin: - Martin Randall is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. His PhD concerned the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary British fiction.