9/11 American Culture

Richard Gray in his book ‘After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11’ presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. He Places U.S. writing in the context of the transformed position of the U.S. in a world characterized by political, economic, and military crisis; transnational drift; the revival of religious fundamentalism and the apparent triumph of global capitalism.
In the article, “Contesting the Story: Plotting the Terrorist in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man”, published in Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature, the author Nath Aldalala’a talks about the intrinsic interplay of fact and fiction that frequently characterises post-9/11 novels and situates them within hegemonic discursive frameworks that has fostered a debate about the role of literature in documenting such events and its relevance to the …show more content…
She also implores into the role of literature in our understanding of the human psyche and public affairs.

Another paper entitled “Terrorism as a Gendered Familial Psychodrama in John Updike's Terrorist” by Alaa Alghamdi of Taibah University was published in Moderna språk in 2015. The paper explores the idea that logical and thematic inconsistencies in the novel, including deep ambivalence in the depiction of the female characters, are devices deliberately put in place to highlight a gendered psychodrama and construct a strongly patriarchal worldview, both of which offer near-experiential insight into the young terrorist's own