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- Title
Photographs of Falling Bodies and the Ethics of Vulnerability in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
- Authors
Vanderwees, Chris
- Abstract
The article explores the ethical and political relationship between Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and the photographs of those who fell (or leapt) from the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Drawing on Judith Butler's theorization of the ethics of vulnerability, the article briefly outlines ongoing debates around the photography of atrocity in order to suggest that rather than reaffirm tropes of American exceptionalism and victory culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Foer's novel and its engagement with the falling body may prompt readers to consider ethical recognition and responsibility to others.
- Subjects
EXTREMELY Loud &; Incredibly Close (Book); FOER, Jonathan Safran, 1977-; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature; PHOTOGRAPHY of September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; 21ST century American fiction; FALLING bodies in literature; ETHICS; LITERARY criticism; AMERICAN fiction
- Publication
Canadian Review of American Studies, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 2, p174
- ISSN
0007-7720
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3138/cras.2014.010