Terror in Global Narrative

1. Introduction: “Like an Artwork in Its Own Right”: Artistic Representations of 9/11 in a Late-Late Capitalist Age of Terror
Liliana M. Naydan, George Fragopoulos

Part I. Textual Representations of 9/11

2. The Enemy Within: Max Brooks’s World War Z and the Terror of Living Death
Scott Ortolano

3. 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

Liliana M. Naydan

4. Redacted Tears, Aesthetics of Alterity: Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary

Erin Trapp

5. A Bird in the Hand: Aesthetics and Capital in the Anthology Poetry After 9/11

Scott Cleary

Part II. Toward an Imaging of 9/11

6. Narrative Wreckage: Terror, Illness, and Healing in the Post-9/11 Poethics of Claudia Rankine
Mark A. Tabone

7. On Claiming Responsibility: Banksy’s Art as Counter-Narrative to the Bureaucratization of the Imagination
George Fragopoulos

8. The Return of Myth: Icons, Mythology, and the Universal Narrative of 9/11
Ruth Knepel

9. Gerhard Richter’s September and the Politics of Ambivalence
Mafalda Dâmaso

Part III. Movie Representations, Tele-Visions, and a Web of 9/11

10. We Now Interrupt this Program: Pre-Empting the Apocalypse in ABC’s Miracles

Jason Ramírez

11. Music Videos and Locker Room Humor: Rescue Me Reckons with Post-9/11 Hero Worship
Shelley Manis

12. Post-9/11 New York on Screen: Mourning, Surveillance, and the Arab Other in Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor

Elizabeth Toohey

13. Little Shop of … : Intersections of the 9/11 Memorial Museum Gift Shop, Capitalism, and Journalism
Alison Novak

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, American Culture, Terrorism and Political Violence, Aesthetics