“One nightmare replaces another”: Trauma and Mourning in the Age of Terror through Paul Auster’s Travels in The Scriptoriumand Man in The Dark
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001sent Americans down a spiral of fear and anger that got an immediate response in the form of some of the most controversial legislative moves in thehistory of the nation, as well as the military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sense of invincibil...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/151514 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/151514 https://doi.org/10.12795/REN.2023.i27.2 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 9/11 Auster Trauma U.S. War Terror Grief Exceptionalism 11-S EE. UU Guerra Duelo Excepcionalismo |
| Sumario: | The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001sent Americans down a spiral of fear and anger that got an immediate response in the form of some of the most controversial legislative moves in thehistory of the nation, as well as the military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sense of invincibility that had dominated the American imaginary evaporated as the dreamlike chaos and anxieties of that day shaped the texts written by some of the renowned American novelists. Among them, Paul Auster with his post-9/11 texts Travels in the Scriptorium (2007) and Man in the Dark (2008), deals with the incommensurability of 9/11 through the anxietie s produced bythe physical and psychological traumaof twooldmen trapped in a room, where fiction poses as the way to escape theconfinement and where matters ofindividual and historical memory merge with Auster’s critique of the U.S. War on Terror. |
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