9/11 Literature and Memorial Culture

Catalog description

The subject of this course is the variety of US cultural response to the events of September 11th, 2001, with a particular emphasis on the culture of memorialization. Aside from the political and military consequences of the attacks of that day, how has US culture been affected and how has culture been produced in the wake of 9/ 11? Leaving aside discussion of the global military events that followed September 11th, 2001 , except insofar as they have had cultural effects, the course will consider how poets, musicians, visual and graphic artists, filmmakers, novelists, and others have responded to what was quickly named "9/11" and will consider several critiques of that response. In addition, the course examines the way the events of 9/ 11 have been memorialized.