Download e-book for iPad: Falling Men in the Post-9/11 Novel by Nathalie Gerlach

Master's Thesis from the 12 months 2014 within the topic American reports - Literature, grade: 1,5, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Amerikanistik), language: English, summary: when you consider that September eleven, 2011, truth has not just outstripped fiction, it’s destroying it. It’s most unlikely to put in writing approximately this topic, and but very unlikely to jot down approximately anything. not anything else touches us. (Beigbeder 8)
On an early and sunny Tuesday morning in September 2001 the incredible occurred, 2973 humans have been killed in an assault at the global exchange middle in big apple urban. inside of quarter-hour airplanes hit the dual Towers and heralded a brand new age; “the age of terror”. The trauma starts off at 8:46 AM neighborhood time with the crashing of the 1st aircraft into The North Tower. The tower will cave in 102 mins later. those 102 mins convey photographs of crashing planes, burning and collapsing towers and folks leaping from home windows. those photographs unfold worldwide and have been repeated ceaselessly, “framing them within the discourses of heroism, patriotism, innocence and trauma” (Däwes 2). the photographs of September 11 burned themselves into the stories of up to date witnesses. in this Tuesday the area exchange heart actually turns into the heart of the area. what's occurring contained in the burning towers continues to be invisible. each person who's situated above the crashed planes is left with the alternative to burn or to leap. approximately 2 hundred humans throw themselves out of the home windows. [...]