TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sandra Singer
PY  - 2019
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433149412
TI  - Stock Characters in 9/11 Fiction
T2  - Homosociality and Nihilist Performance
DO  - 10.3726/b15083
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056122
N2  - Stock Characters in 9/11 Fiction considers fictional work of the time subsequent to the attacks. The book develops and investigates models of stock characters in 9/11 fiction who promote the trauma meme within a narrative arc of tragedy; the conceptual evolution of trauma and media as thematic arcs is interpreted within specific 9/11 novels and in correspondence with other terrorist fiction. The almost exclusively male stock character protagonists include the male homosocial perpetrator and the tightrope walker. Among the more recent authors discussed are Amy Waldman and Thomas Pynchon, whose novels illustrate the way characters inhabit media models, rather than, as previously thought, using media for disseminating terrorist events and messaging. Other featured writers include Bernhard Schlink, Don DeLillo, Claire Messud, Ian McEwan, Joseph O’Neill, and Colum McCann. Stock Characters in 9/11 Fiction is a valuable text for scholars of 9/11 fiction, as well as for professors and university students studying contemporary literature.
LA  - English
ER  -