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“An Experience Outside of Culture”: A Taxonomy of 9/11 Adult Fiction

Serving as an unfortunate benchmark for the twenty-first century, 9/11 has completely altered society’s perceptions of personal safety, security and social identity, along with provoking intense emotional reactions. One outlet for these resulting emotions has been through art and literature. Five years have since passed and contemporary authors are still struggling to accurately represent that tragic day and its consequent impression. This paper provides an analysis of how the events of 9/11 have been incorporated into adult fiction. Variations of themes related to psychology, interpersonal relationships, political and social perspectives, and heroism were found to be used most frequently among authors.

  1. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/247
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UNC_CH/oai:etd.ils.unc.edu:1901/247
Date27 March 2006
CreatorsAllison B. Moonitz
ContributorsDavid Carr
PublisherSchool of Information and Library Science
Source SetsUniversity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Theses and Dissertations
Formatapplication/pdf, 217070 bytes, application/pdf

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