09/11

<p>The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading scholars 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature </em>is a wide-ranging guide to literary responses to the attacks and its aftermath. The book covers the most widely studied texts from Don DeLillo's Falling Man </em>Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</em> and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom </em>to responses in contemporary American poetry and graphic narratives such as Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Including annotated guides to further reading this is an essential guide for students and readers of contemporary American literature.</p>