2024-03-29T14:20:03Zhttps://gredos.usal.es/oai/requestoai:gredos.usal.es:10366/1283132022-02-07T17:29:19Zcom_10366_4414com_10366_4395com_10366_3946com_10366_3823com_10366_4756com_10366_4746col_10366_4422col_10366_68521
Ateşci Koçak, Betül
2016-05-10T10:58:54Z
2016-05-10T10:58:54Z
2015
http://hdl.handle.net/10366/128313
10.14201/gredos.128313
[EN]The attacks on September 11, 2001 have left a mark in the history of the world and its effects
have been realized in several disciplines. Literature is one these disciplines to reflect the
aftermath situation not just in American but all over the world. Up to today, there are more
than one hundred novels published post-9/11. Though not all of them directly deal with 9/11
attacks, they mostly mention about that day and its outcomes.
This thesis studies the novels that deal with trauma in the context of September 11
attacks. The selected novels focus on the dominant traumatic instances as well as the
traumatic spaces that have influenced the characters’ lives. The repetitive and unforeseeable
instances of trauma dominates the spaces and places of the characters’ everyday-life which
brings after spatial analysis in conjunction with trauma studies in this thesis. The main
objective of this thesis is to present the extents that trauma that has occupied the fictional
lives, with references and examples to real lives post-9/11. While this study mainly focuses
on three novels, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Nilüfer Kuyaş’s Serbest Düşüş and Amy
Waldman's The Submission, there are also allusions to some other 9/11 novels.
There are four main chapters in this thesis. The first chapter, ‘Trauma and Space in the
Post-9/11 Novel’, analyses how these two terms interact with each other and tries to place it
with a theoretical framework. The second chapter, ‘The Road: Post-apocalyptic Trauma’,
discusses how trauma is represented as post-apocalyptic. The third chapter examines
‘Nilüfer Kuyaş’s Serbest Düşüş (Free Fall): Trauma at the Crossroads’ and shows how
September 11 attacks are received and responded in Turkey. The fourth chapter discusses
‘Amy Waldman’s The Submission: Trauma on a National Scale’ and explores the connection
between the plan of a memorial site and trauma and draws clear lines of traumascapes.
[ES]Los ataques del 11 de septiembre de 2001 han dejado una huella en la historia del mundo y sus efectos se han plasmado en varias disciplinas. La literatura es una de estas disciplinas en la que se reflejan
las consecuencias, no sólo en América sino en todo el mundo. Hoy día ya hay más de un centenar de novelas publicadas post-9/11. Aunque no todas tratan directamente de los ataques del 9/11, en su mayoría mencionan el día y sus resultados. Esta tesis estudia las novelas que tienen que ver con el trauma en el contexto de los ataques del 11 de septiembre. Las novelas seleccionadas se centran en las instancias traumáticas dominantes así como en los espacios traumáticas que han influido en las vidas de los personajes.
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Tesis y disertaciones académicas
Universidad de Salamanca (España)
Academic Dissertations
Sociología de la literatura
Traumatic spaces in the Post-9/11 Novel
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