41.1 (Summer 2011)

nine eleven + ten in literature, popular culture, and the classroom

Introduction and Acknowledgments
Justine Dymond

Crisis of Memory: Memorializing 9/11 in the Comic Book Universe
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

Historical Fiction After 9/11 : Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day
Paolo Simonetti

“This was the World Now”: Falling Man and the Role of the Artist after 9/11
Anne Longmuir

Pedagogy in the Land of the Lost: Negotiating 9/11 Fatigue when Teaching 9/11 Culture
Andrew Schopp

Star Wars and “Star Wars”: Teaching Pre-9/11 Literature as Post-9/11 Reality
Edward J. Carvalho

Response
Andrew Hoberek

Reviews:

John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett. The Myth of the American Superhero;
and Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism Daniel Wood

Joseph O’Neill. Netherland
Irmak Ertuna-Howison

Art Spiegelman. In the Shadow of No Towers
Natasha Luepke

Mohsin Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Novel
Sharmila Mukherjee

Yasmina Khadra. The Sirens of Baghdad
Su Senapati

Blair Kamin. Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age
Joseph L. V. Donica

Afterword:

How (and How Not) to Write About 9/11