2021-02-13 at 15:47:37
Ioana-Maria Cistelecan from Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania
will present Trauma & the Self's Reconfiguration (in Jay McInerney's The Good Life)
Abstract
The present paper intends to focus on the impact 9/11 tragic events had on and respectively were explored and exploited into one of the relatively recent contemporary narrative, that belonging to Jay McInerney: The Good Life (a sequel to his 1992 novel, Brightness Falls, taking place immediately before, during, and after the events of September 11, 2001.). The paper will also attempt to reveal the frail balance between trauma, guilt and personal healing as far as the novel’s characters and their inner progression are in question, but it will also try to x-ray McInerney's novel as one belonging to the generous paradigm of 9/11 fiction, with all its aftershocks and acute cultural observation.
In section
American Literature