Tragedy Since 9/11 by Jennifer Wallace
Reading a World out of Joint
A wide-ranging study of how the idea and form of tragedy have been reimagined in the post-9/11 era, tracing their presence across theater, film, visual culture, memorial practices, and political rhetoric. It brings classical concepts such as fate, catharsis, and recognition into dialogue with contemporary experiences of terror, war, disaster, and financial crisis, asking whether invoking “tragedy” clarifies or obscures questions of agency and responsibility. The book argues for tragedy’s enduring power to shape collective mourning, ethical reflection, and spectatorship in a media-saturated world.
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- 2012
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- British
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