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Course Description

This course explores fiction written in response to terrorism and the events of 9/11. While most texts will be written by American writers, the course will also address texts written from outside the Western perspective. Issues to be addressed include trauma and memory, exile and displacement, American identity and collective tragedy, immigration, terrorism and ethical responsibility, and fear among many others.

Searching for Books

Out of the Blue: September 11 and the novel by Kristiaan Versluys
Call Number: Available online in EBL
ISBN: 0231520336
Publication Date: 2009-07-01
Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic clichés and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events and what it means to depict them.

Books on individual authors can be found by searching for the author's name as subject, for example, su:delillo, don

Books on the subject of post 9/11 fiction can be found by searching subject headings such as:

su:September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Fiction.
su:September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
su:Victims of terrorism Fiction.

Some examples:

Portraying 9/11 by Veronique Bragard
Call Number: Available online in EBL
ISBN: 0786488964
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
This collection of essays offers critical insights into the discourses that shape the memory of 9/11 in the narrative genres of comics, literature, film, and theatre
Plotting Justice: narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 by Georgiana Banita
Call Number: Available online in EBL
ISBN: 0803244614
Publication Date: 2012-10-01
Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 shifted the moral coordinates of contemporary fiction? And how might such a shift, reflected in narrative strategies and forms, relate to other themes and trends emerging with the globalization of literature?