Session Details

Wednesday, 28 December

123. Representing 9/11

8:30–9:45 a.m., Delaware Suite A, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Laura Frost, Yale Univ.

1. “‘The Scariest Address on Earth’: The Freedom Tower and the Urban Uncanny,” Elizabeth B. Machlan, Princeton Univ.

2. “‘Not Needed, Except as Meaning’: 9/11 and the Challenge to Memory in Robert Pinsky’s ‘Anniversary,’” Ann Keniston, Univ. of Nevada, Reno

3. “Disastrous Images: 9/11 and the End of Representation,” Richard Robert Glejzer, North Central Coll.

4. “‘The Twin Towers of Auschwitz and Hiroshima’: Art Spiegelman, 9/11, and the Limits of Analogy,” Laura Frost

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