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Trauma at home : after 9/11

Deals with September 11 from a variety of personal, cultural, scholarly, and clinical perspectives. Through the lenses of cultural studies, trauma studies, feminism, film and literary criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and through poetic and photographic images, the contributors use their disciplines to help make sense of the incomprehensible.
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, ©2003
Aufsatzsammlung
xxiv, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780803271081, 0803271085
50520556
The dead of September 11 / Toni Morrison
On that day / Geoffrey Hartman
September 11: between memory and history / Richard Stamelman
Wounded New York / Judith Greenberg
Reporting the disaster / Nancy K. Miller
If you have tears / Peter Brooks
"There's no backhand to this" / James Berger
Trauma ongoing / Ann Cvetkovich
I took pictures: September 2001 and beyond / Marianne Hirsch
Photographs, 87 / Lorie Novak
A camera and a catastrophe: reflections on trauma and the Twin Towers / E. Ann Kaplan
Uncanny sights: the anticipation of the abomination / Claire Kahane
The war of the fathers: trauma, fantasy, and September 11 / Susannah Radstone
Masked power: an encounter with the social body in the flesh / Orly Lubin
The limits of empathy and the global politics of belonging / Jill Bennett
First writing since / Suheir Hammad
"There is no poetry in this": writing, trauma, and home / Michael Rothberg
Fallout of various kinds / Elizabeth Baer
9/11/01 = 1/27/01: the changed posttraumatic self / Irene Kacandes
Rubble as archive, or 9/11 as dust, debris, and bodily vanishing / Patricia Yaeger
A not so temporary occupation inside ground zero / Donna Bassin
September 11, 2001
an event without a voice / Dori Laub
Remember life with life: the New World Trade Center / James Young