A misunderstanding: trauma and terrorism in the '9/11 fiction'
The terrorist attacks in September 2001 were largely deemed by the media and cultural circles to be traumatic events. Since then, literary criticism has indiscriminately employed the concept of trauma in the so-called '9/11 fiction'. I shall offer a reading of Michael Cunningham's Spe...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:trans_702 https://doi.org/10.4000/trans.702 urn:doi:10.4000/trans.702 en https://journals.openedition.org/trans/702 2013-02-24T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ljos All rights reserved A misunderstanding: trauma and terrorism in the '9/11 fiction' TRANS- Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1778-3887 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/trans Borges, Marana The terrorist attacks in September 2001 were largely deemed by the media and cultural circles to be traumatic events. Since then, literary criticism has indiscriminately employed the concept of trauma in the so-called '9/11 fiction'. I shall offer a reading of Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days (2005) and Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station (2011) regarding their critical view of the term. My contention is that the predominance of trauma as a theoretical apparatus for literary works is due to a) a misreading of the very term, detached from its original legal-medical context, and b) a slippage between the categories of fiction and history. Los ataques terroristas de septiembre del 2001 fueron considerados traumáticos tanto por los medios de comunicación como por los culturales. Desde entonces, la crítica literaria emplea indiscriminadamente el concepto de trauma a las ficciones asociadas a la etiqueta del '11S'. A partir de las novelas de Michael Cunningham, Días Cruciales (2005), y de Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station1 (2011), se defiende que el predominio del trauma como paradigma teórico en la literatura se debe a : a) una errónea interpretación del término, extraído de su contexto médico-jurídico, b) una fusión de las categorías historia y ficción. |
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The terrorist attacks in September 2001 were largely deemed by the media and cultural circles to be traumatic events. Since then, literary criticism has indiscriminately employed the concept of trauma in the so-called '9/11 fiction'. I shall offer a reading of Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days (2005) and Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station (2011) regarding their critical view of the term. My contention is that the predominance of trauma as a theoretical apparatus for literary works is due to a) a misreading of the very term, detached from its original legal-medical context, and b) a slippage between the categories of fiction and history. |
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Borges, Marana |
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A misunderstanding: trauma and terrorism in the '9/11 fiction' |
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A misunderstanding: trauma and terrorism in the '9/11 fiction' |
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