9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
 Introduction: 9/11 in European Literature  (Svenja Frank)....Pages 1-34
Front Matter ....Pages 35-35
 9/11: The Interpretation of Disaster as Disaster of Interpretation—An American Catastrophe Reflected in American and European Discourses  (Rolf G. Renner)....Pages 37-60
 The Wind of the Hudson. Gerhard Richter’s September (2005) and the European Perception of Catastrophe   (Ulrich Kinzel)....Pages 61-81
 ‘Burning from the Inside Out’: Let the Great World Spin (2009)  (Eoin Flannery)....Pages 83-101
Front Matter ....Pages 103-103
 Seeing Is Disbelieving: The Contested Visibility of 9/11 in France  (Jean-Philippe Mathy)....Pages 105-129
 Cultural and Historical Memory in English and German Discursive Responses to 9/11  (Sandra Singer)....Pages 131-157
 The Post-9/11 World in Three Polish Responses: Zagajewski, Skolimowski, Tochman  (Ewa Kowal)....Pages 159-179
 The Islamic World as Other in Oriana Fallaci’s “Trilogy”  (Charles Burdett)....Pages 181-204
Front Matter ....Pages 205-205
 National Identity and Literary Culture After 9/11: Pro- and Anti-Americanism in Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World (2003) and Thomas Hettche’s Woraus wir gemacht sind (2006)  (Birte Christ)....Pages 207-251
 The Mimicry of Dialogue: Thomas Lehr’s September. Fata Morgana (2010)  (Svenja Frank)....Pages 253-282
 Europe and Its Discontents: Intra-European Violence in Dutch Literature After 9/11  (Maria Boletsi)....Pages 283-321
 Tourist/Terrorist: Narrating Uncertainty in Early European Literature on Guantánamo  (Philipp Hubmann)....Pages 323-355
Back Matter ....Pages 357-386