Literature after 9/11 / edited by Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Representing 9/11: Literature and Resistance / Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn -- Pt. 1. Experiencing 9/11: Time, Trauma, and the Incommensurable Event -- 1. Portraits of Grief: Telling Details and the New Genres of Testimony / Nancy K. Miller -- 2. Foer, Spiegelman, and 9/11's Timely Traumas / Mitchum Huehls -- 3. Graphic Implosion: Politics, Time, and Value in Post-9/11 Comics / Simon Cooper and Paul Atkinson -- 4. "Sometimes things disappear": Absence and Mutability in Colson Whitehead's The Colossus of New York / Stephanie Li -- 5. Witnessing 9/11: Art Spiegelman and the Persistence of Trauma / Richard Glejzer -- Pt. 2. 9/11 Politics and Representation -- 6. Seeing Terror, Feeling Art: Public and Private in Post-9/11 Literature / Michael Rothberg -- 7. "We're Not a Friggin' Girl Band": September 11, Masculinity, and the British-American Relationship in David Hare's Stuff Happens and Ian McEwan's Saturday / Rebecca Carpenter -- 8. "We're the Culture That Cried Wolf": Discourse and Terrorism in Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby / Lance Rubin -- 9. Still Life: 9/11's Falling Bodies / Laura Frost -- Pt. 3. 9/11 and the Literary Tradition -- 10. Telling It Like It Isn't / David Simpson -- 11. Portraits 9/11/01: The New York Times and the Pornography of Grief / Simon Stow -- 12. Theater after 9/11 / Robert Brustein -- 13. Real Planes and Imaginary Towers: Philip Roth's The Plot Against America as 9/11 Prosthetic Screen / Charles Lewis -- 14. Precocious Testimony: Poetry and the Uncommemorable / Jeffrey Gray -- Afterword: Imagination and Monstrosity / Robert Pinsky.