9/11 as a European event: The novels

European Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-79

  Versluys, Kristiaan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITICS; TERRORISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846049515     PISSN: 10627987     EISSN: 14740575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1062798707000063     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. B. Charles. The Numbers. In T. Beller (ed.) (2002) Before and After Stories from New York (New York: Mr. Beller's Neighborhood Books), p. 28 (of the After section).
2. J. Baudrillard. (2002) The Spirit of Terrorism, trans. Chris Turner (London: Verso) pp. 41, 13.
3. L. Lang (2003) 11 septembre mon amour (Paris: Stock), p. 99.
4. S. Black (2002) Perfect weather. In U. Baer (ed.) 110 stories (New York: New York University Press) p. 47;
5. G. Borradori (2003) Philosophy in a Time of Terror. Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) p. 91;
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7. T. Morrison (2003) The Dead of September 11. In J. Greenberg (ed.) (2003) Trauma at Home. After 9/11 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press) p. 1.
8. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/archive/main310811.shtml. Accessed on February 3, 2006.
9. www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/Print/20010911-16.html. Accessed on November 24, 2004.
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12. J. Meyers (2002) September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero (Portland, Oregon: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts).
13. M. Agosín and B.J. Craige (2002) To Mend the World. Women Reflect on 9/11 (Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press).
14. D. DeLillo (2001) In the ruins of the future: Reflections on terror and loss in the shadow of September. Harper's Magazine Dec. 2001, p. 39.
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17. Examples are: C.V. Allen (2004) Sudden Moves (Don Mills, Ontario: Mira);
18. R. Amburgey (2003) United We Stand (Baltimore: PublishAmerica);
19. K. Kingbury (2003) One Tuesday Morning (Waterville, Maine: Tborndike Press);
20. K. Kingsbury and G. Smalley (2003) Remember (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers).
21. Art Spiegelman (2004) Introduction. In the Shadow of No Towers (New York: Pantheon Books).
22. P. Hamill (2003) Forever (Boston: Little Brown).
23. N. Rinaldi (2004) Between Two Rivers (New York: HarperCollins).
24. J.S. Foer (2005) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Boston: Houghton Mifflin).
25. L. Lang (2003) 11 septembre mon amour (Paris: Stock);
26. F. Beigbeder (2004) Windows on the World. Trans. Frank Wynne (London: Fourth Estate);
27. I. McEwan (2005) Saturday (London: Jonathan Cape).
28. All translations from 11 septembre mon amour are mine.
29. F. Schuerewegen (2005) Tours et détours (vu de France). Contemporary French Civilization, 29(2), 146.
30. Cf. Amy Kaplan (2003) Homeland insecurities: Transformations of language and space. In M.L. Dudziak (ed.) (2003) September 11 in History. A Watershed Moment? (Durham: Duke University Press) p. 57: 'September 11 was not compared to August 6 [date of the bombing of Hiroshima]. Instead the analogy we heard over and over again was to Pearl Harbor, December 7, even though the experience of a sudden horrific attack on civilians in an urban centre seemed more like the events of September 11 than the military attack on a naval base. The repeated overemphasis on the one event worked to disavow the obvious connection to the other.'
31. The name 'Beigbeder' will appear in inverted commas to distinguish the character in the novel from the real-life person.
32. S. Spender (1974) Love-Hate Relations; a Study of Anglo-American Sensibilities (London: Hamilton);
33. R. Weisbuch (1986) Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).