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Writing the 9/11 Decade: Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel

Charlie Lee-Potter

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Description:Writing the 9/11 Decade investigates the relation of the novel to reportage, and the role of bothin shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to the September 11 attacks.Journalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by theexpectation that they would provide an immediate non-fiction response to 9/11. Beginning withan examination of the sometimes mawkish writing that emerged in the days after the attacks,Writing the 9/11 Decade traces the evolution of literary journalism – in writers such as IanMcEwan, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam – into new methodsof subsuming the disaster, while attempting to stand apart from it. It includes interviews withnovelists such as Richard Ford, Amy Waldman and Kamila Shamsie, as well as the only longforminterview granted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who ishimself a 9/11 survivor.In assessing the novel's capacity to respond to and contain an unimagined traumatic event,Writing the 9/11 Decade stands as a contemporary history of the form.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Writing the 9/11 Decade: Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel. To get started finding Writing the 9/11 Decade: Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Writing the 9/11 Decade investigates the relation of the novel to reportage, and the role of bothin shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to the September 11 attacks.Journalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by theexpectation that they would provide an immediate non-fiction response to 9/11. Beginning withan examination of the sometimes mawkish writing that emerged in the days after the attacks,Writing the 9/11 Decade traces the evolution of literary journalism – in writers such as IanMcEwan, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam – into new methodsof subsuming the disaster, while attempting to stand apart from it. It includes interviews withnovelists such as Richard Ford, Amy Waldman and Kamila Shamsie, as well as the only longforminterview granted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who ishimself a 9/11 survivor.In assessing the novel's capacity to respond to and contain an unimagined traumatic event,Writing the 9/11 Decade stands as a contemporary history of the form.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Writing the 9/11 Decade: Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel. To get started finding Writing the 9/11 Decade: Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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