The Flâneur and Post-9/11 Literature
Texturing 9/11 and Urban Walking in Contemporary American Fiction
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Beschreibung
In the wake of September 11, 2001, New York City and the collective consciousness were profoundly transformed. The Flâneur and Post-9/11 Literature explores how contemporary American fiction represents this altered landscape through characters whose wanderings recall the flâneur. While not flâneurs in the nineteenth-century sense, these protagonists use urban wandering as a narrative strategy to negotiate trauma, memory, and the reconfiguration of urban space. Focusing on novels by Teju Cole, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, and Amy Waldman, the book shows how urban wandering—a recurrent motif in post-9/11 fiction—becomes a morally, emotionally, and politically charged practice. Linking flânerie to the spatial and symbolic transformations of New York City, the study examines how streets and the haunting voids of Ground Zero structure narrative and shape collective memory. Tracing intersections of bodies, streets, and stories, the book illuminates how literature bears witness to trauma and reshapes urban experience.
Autor*in
Beatrice Melodia Festa
Beatrice Melodia Festa holds a PhD in Modern Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures from the University of Verona, where she teaches English Language. Her research and specialization focuses on American literature, with interests that include American fiction in relation to technology and virtuality, contemporary African American literature, adaptation studies, disability and speculative narratives, narrative medicine, women’s writing, and urban studies. She serves on the editorial board of Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies.
Themen in »The Flâneur and Post-9/11 Literature«
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