Representations of New York Urban Spaces in American Literature after the 9/11 Attacks

首先，我编纂了当代美国文学和文化的主要和次要来源的书目，重点是它对9/11恐怖袭击及其后果的表现，以及关于城市空间及其表现的文化理论。我结合我之前对现代纽约的研究以及对摩天大楼的使用来研究这一点，澄清了传统中的分离和延续。然后，我检查了个别作品，看看艺术家们是如何在经历了破坏后重新审视这座城市的现代叙事的。此外，我还研究了一组小说，这些小说将母子关系作为创伤经历情境中韧性的象征。为了在更广泛的背景下探讨这一主题，我讨论了日本艺术家对纽约/美国的表现，以及关于过去灾难及其创伤的日本作品，以启动一个关于灾难及其表现的国际合作研究项目。

First, I compiled a bibliography of primary and secondary sources on contemporary American literature and culture with a focus on its representation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath, and cultural theories on the urban space and its representation. I examined this in relation to my previous studies of modern New York and the use of skyscrapers clarifying disjunction as well as continuation in the tradition. Then, I examined individual works to find out how artists revisited the modern narrative of the city after the experience of destruction. In addition, I studied a group of novels that use mother-son relationships as symbols of resiliency in contextualizing traumatic experiences. To examine the topic in a broader context, I discussed Japanese artists' representation of New York/USA as well as Japanese works on past disasters and their traumas to initiate an internationally collaborative research project on disaster and its representations.