Location
Stewart Center 310
Session Number
Session 25: RELATING TERROR AND VIOLENCE: 9/11, THE HOLOCAUST, AND ECO-TERRORISM
Start Date
10-9-2011 1:30 PM
End Date
10-9-2011 3:00 PM
Abstract
This essay argues that Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of New Towers open up new spaces for reading the trauma of 9/11 not simply as the tragic story of a single day in 2001, but as a traumatic event that shares referents with other catastrophes in history, most notably the Holocaust. Further, the author demonstrates that these works are more concerned with the politicization of 9/11 than they are with the terrorist attacks themselves.
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Cultural History Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons
Reading 9/11 through the Holocaust in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers
Stewart Center 310
This essay argues that Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of New Towers open up new spaces for reading the trauma of 9/11 not simply as the tragic story of a single day in 2001, but as a traumatic event that shares referents with other catastrophes in history, most notably the Holocaust. Further, the author demonstrates that these works are more concerned with the politicization of 9/11 than they are with the terrorist attacks themselves.