TY - BOOK AU - Gray,Richard J TI - After the fall: American literature since 9/11 T2 - Blackwell manifestos SN - 9780470657928 (hardback) U1 - 810.9006 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chichester, United Kingdom PB - Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley and Sons Publication KW - American literature KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - BUEsh KW - Nationalism in literature KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 KW - Influence KW - HHUUEENN KW - November2019 KW - Reading book N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; After the fall -- Imagining disaster -- Imagining crisis -- Imagining the transnational -- Imagining the crisis in drama and poetry N2 - The leading European scholar on American literature examines the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on United States culture and literature. In addition to developing an argument about literature and trauma, Gray places U.S. writing in the context of America's transformed position in a world characterized by political, economic, and military crisis; transnational drift; the resurgence of religious fundamentalism; and the apparent triumph of global capitalism ER -