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Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 Also by Kristine A. Miller BRITISH LITERATURE OF THE BLITZ: Fighting the People’s War Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 The Wrong Side of Paradise Edited by Kristine A. Miller Utah State University, USA Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Kristine A. Miller 2014 Individual chapters © Contributors 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-44320-5 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-49528-3 ISBN 978-1-137-44321-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137443212 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Transatlantic literature and culture after 9/11 : the wrong side of paradise / edited by Kristine A. Miller, Utah State University, USA. pages cm Summary: “Looking back on a decade of the US-run and UK-supported ‘war on terror’, this volume examines how transatlantic literature and culture have challenged notions of American exceptionalism since 11 September 2001. The essays look not only at but also beyond the compulsion to relive this moment of terror, whether in recurring episodes of silencing trauma or repeating loops of media images. Conceiving of 9/11 as both a uniquely American trauma and a shared event in global history, the collection re-examines Ground Zero through the lenses of imperial power and cosmopolitan exchange. The book’s subtitle challenges readers to engage this perspective by rethinking the paradox of paradise, a condition of both never-ending bliss and everlasting death. As the self-appointed economic and military gatekeeper of an imagined global paradise, America plays a dangerous moral and political game. This volume asks whether the United States has perhaps chosen the wrong side of paradise by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace”— Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. American literature—21st century—History and criticism. 2. English literature— 21st century—History and criticism. 3. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature. 4. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media. 5. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001—Influence. 6. Psychic trauma and mass media. 7. Terrorism in literature. I. Miller, Kristine, 1966- editor. PS231.S47T73 2014 809’.93358—dc23 2014021126 Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. For my family and in memory of Bette and S. C. Miller, Eleanor and Harold Rohr, Marian S. and Nils Y. Wessell, and James Gindin This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xii Introduction: The Wrong Side of Paradise: American Exceptionalism and the Special Relationship After 9/11 1 Kristine A. Miller Part I Empire 1 Paradoxical Polemics: John le Carré’s Responses to 9/11 17 Phyllis Lassner 2 The (Inter)national Bond: James Bond and the Special Relationship 34 Jim Leach 3 221B–9/11: Sherlock Holmes and Conspiracy Theory 50 Brian McCuskey Part II Cosmopolis 4 Behind the Face of Terror: Hamid, Malkani, and Multiculturalism after 9/11 71 Lynda Ng 5 “Scandalous Memoir”: Uncovering Silences and Reclaiming the Disappeared in Mahvish Rukhsana Kahn’s My Guantánamo Diary 90 M. Neelika Jayawardane 6 Joseph O’Neill and the Post-9/11 Novel 110 Matthew Brown 7 An Interview with Joseph O’Neill 129 Laura Frost Part III City 8 9/11 Theater: The Story of New York or the Nation? 141 Lesley Broder 9 Flying Man and Falling Man: Remembering and Forgetting 9/11 159 Graley Herren vii viii Contents 10 “I’m Only Just Starting to Look”: Media, Art, and Literature After 9/11 177 Crystal Alberts 11 Archifictions: Constructing September 11 198 Laura Frost 12 The New Grotesque in Jess Walter’s The Zero: A Commentary and Interview 221 Anthony Flinn Bibliography 238 Index 257 Illustrations 9.1 In this Tuesday, September 11, 2001, file picture, a person falls headfirst from the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center 161 9.2 Philippe Petit crossing between the Twin Towers, August 7, 1974 169 10.1 Excerpt from “9-1-01,” World War 3 Illustrated #32, 2001 183 ix
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