后“9·11”小说述评

A Review of the Post-9/11 Novels of Britain and America

当今众多小说家以"9·11"事件为背景或题材进行创作,形成21世纪文学中一个独特的文学群类,即后"9·11"小说。此类小说从书写"9·11"事件及其带给人类的集体或个体悲剧性体验、创伤后心理、精神危机等问题,刻画"9·11"事件之后蔓延整个西方世界的焦虑与恐惧,谱写21世纪以来人类面对生存危机之全景图。

Many American and British novelists begin to write about the 9/11 event, thus forming a unique literary genre in the 21st century English literature： the Post-9/11 Novel. These novels deal with the 9/11 event from differ-ent angles, and collective or individual tragic experience and post-traumatic psychology and spiritual crises caused by the event, and the novels also characterize the anxiety and fear spreading all over the western world after the 9/11 event, all of which are written about the panorama of human trauma in the 20th century.