Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of post-modernity, space, and temporality, Literature after 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and literature’s attempts to convey 9/11.

Acknowledgments Introduction: "Representing 9/11: Literature and Resistance," Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn Part One: Experiencing 9/11: Time, Trauma, and the Incommensurable EventChapter 1: "Portraits of Grief: Telling Details and the New Genres of Testimony," Nancy K. Miller Chapter 2: "Foer, Spiegelman, and 9/11’s Timely Traumas," Mitchum Huehls Chapter 3: "Graphic Implosion: Politics, Time, and Value in Post-9/11 Comics," Simon Cooper and Paul Atkinson Chapter 4: "‘Sometimes Things Disappear’: Absence and Mutability in Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York," Stephanie Li Chapter 5: "Witnessing 9/11: Art Spiegelman and the Persistence of Trauma," Richard Glejzer Part Two: 9/11 Politics and RepresentationChapter 6: "Seeing Terror, Feeling Art: Public and Private in Post-9/11 Literature," Michael Rothberg Chapter 7: "‘We’re not a friggin’ girl band’: September 11, Masculinity, and the British-American Relationship in David Hare’s Stuff Happens and Ian McEwan’s Saturday," Rebecca Carpenter Chapter 8: "‘We’re the culture that cried wolf’: Discourse and Terrorism in Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby," Lance Allen Rubin Chapter 9: "Still Life: 9/11’s Falling Bodies," Laura Frost Part Three: 9/11 and the Literary TraditionChapter 10: "Telling It Like It Isn’t," David Simpson Chapter 11: "Portraits 9/11/01: The New York Times and the Pornography of Grief," Simon Stow Chapter 12: "Theater after 9/11," Robert Brustein Chapter 13: "Real Planes and Imaginary Towers: Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America as 9/11 Prosthetic Screen," Charles Lewis Chapter 14: "Precocious Testimony: Poetry and the Uncommemorable," Jeffrey GrayAfterword: "Imagination and Monstrosity," Robert Pinsky Contributors Index