The "Image-Event" in the Early Post-9/11 Novel: Literary Representations of Terror After September 11, 2001. A Comparative Study

Ewa Kowal

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Kowal, Ewa. The "Image-Event" in the Early Post-9/11 Novel: Literary Representations of Terror After September 11, 2001. A Comparative Study. Red. . Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2012, 153 s. ISBN 978-83-233-3317-3

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How can literature respond to a monumental event, unprecedented historically, politically and culturally, whose memory will forever be inseparable from its mass media coverage? How can writers represent what Jean B...

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-233-3317-3

DOI:

Wydawnictwo:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Rok wydania:

2012

Liczba stron:

153

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS12
FOREWORD: WORD ON TERROR14
INTRODUCTION: THE IMAGE(-EVENT)22
CHAPTER I: (AUDIO-)VISUAL MEDIA IN THE POST-9/11 NOVEL30
I.1. Technology30
I.2. The Pattern35
I.3. Media in the post-9/11 novel41
I.4. "Bigger, brighter, life's so short" - inflammable art in the post-9/11 novel53
CHAPTER II: FORM68
CHAPTER III: MOTIFS OF CHILDHOOD AND MAGICAL THINKING IN THE POST-9/11 NOVEL112
III.1. The "proto-child"112
III.2. The figure of the "child"116
III.3. Magical thinking (1)119
III.4. Motifs of childhood and magical thinking in the post-9/11 novel121
III.5. The post-9/11 novel in the Language Classroom137
III.6. Magical thinking (2): Magic - "the most childish of skills"139
CONCLUSION142
BIBLIOGRAPHY146

FOREWORD:WORDONTERROR

TheﬁrstpublicwordsontheSeptember11,2001terroristattackswereproduced

themomenttheeventsbegantohappen.Merelyreportingbarefactsbroadcastlive,

theywerestunnedandsparse,“asifthemediaitselfhadgoneintoshock”(Houen,2).

Signiﬁcantly,fromtheverybeginningtheirrelationtotherealityofwhatwas

happeningwasproblematic.Atﬁrstitwasjustlackofinformation.At8:46a.m.the

ﬁrstplanehittingtheNorthToweroftheWTCwasdescribedinexactlysuchterms:

aplanehittingaskyscraper.Forthenextsixteenminutes,totheonlookers’knowledge,

nothingmoresinisterthanatragicaccidentwastakingplace.Butthen,afterapause

“togivetheworldtimetogatherrounditsTVsets”(Amis,4),thesecondplanehitthe

othertowerandthisexcessivedoublingofeventsdominoedanexcessofinformation

seeminglyimpossibletoprocess.

However,alreadyonSeptember11theprocessofmanagingoftheensuing

chaosbegan:theorderingvocabulary,ﬁrst“attack”andthen“war,”soonbecamethe

dominantwordsonterror,especiallyafter“waronterror”wasannounced.Afterthe

initialstutter,thepubliclanguagebecamemoreﬂuent,rigorous,asifitcouldreverse

oratleastreplacewhatthe“bigpicture”“spelledout”:“Ifoneweretoslowdown

avideotapeoftheﬁrstplaneapproachingthenhittingthenorthtower(…)andthen

zoomintotheinstantsofimpact,onewouldseetheword,American’slide,letterby

letter,intooblivion”(Smith);onewouldalsosee“theviolentobliterationoftheword

,UNITED’”(ibid.).

TheattacksofSeptember11,2001were“themostheinousandgiganticterrorist

missioneverperpetrated”(Borradori,48),a“uniquenewcatastrophe”(Kaplan,137)–

andwithit,saysMartinAmis,we“enteredadistinctphaseinhistory”(21).“September11,

2001,hasbeenmuchinﬂated,itsimpactsexaggerated,itsrealeffectssmotheredin

hyperbole,”saysTerrySmith,addingnonethelessthat“thedeepershifts”ofwhichthis

dayisasymptom“cannotbedenied.”Whenthetowers,twoofthetallestbuildingsin

theworld,locatedattheheartofthegreatesteconomicandmilitarypowerintheworld,

ceasedtoexistinourreality,theyacquiredasymbolic,ghostlypresenceinalternative

reality,thevirtualrealityofthemind:memory,mythandimagination,languageand

allmodesofrepresentation.9/11today“carriessomanyburdens–ofinterpretation,

ofsentimentality,ofpolitics,ofwar–thatsometimesit’shardtoﬁndtherubbleofthe

actualeventbeneaththelayersofediﬁcewe’vebuiltontopofit”(Rich).Thisabstract

ediﬁcewillremainunderconstructionalongtimeaftertheNationalSeptember11

MemorialinNewYorkhasbeencompleted,andalongsidethemonumentitwillstand

forthepivotalpointinrecenthistory,markingthebeginningofthe21stcenturyin

everyaspectofglobalculturefrompoliticstoart.

Thepresentstudywillconcentrateononelayerofthisdevelopingstructure:

literature,analternativestratumtothe“wordonterror.”Themetaphorofarchitecture

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