Mourning for the Traumatized Post-9/11 World in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition
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This essay argues that exploring what we have lost from 9/11, Pattern Recognition depicts how the post-9/11 world mourns for the loss. The novel assumes that the post-9/11 world filled with open wound suffers from the loss of sense of security, the loss of linear concept of time, and the loss of wholeness and coherence of presence and narrative, drifting between the collapse of the old order by terrorism and our unpreparedness for a new order. As a consequence, the world traumatized by such losses becomes vulnerable and precarious only to fall into the state of not knowing. Demonstrating that its protagonist finally overcomes her trauma, the novel concludes that despite the vulnerability of life and narrative, a partial and personal mourning for loss arising from terror is able to be realized though trauma and a sense of insecurity still remain in the post-9/11 world.
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This essay argues that exploring what we have lost from 9/11, Pattern Recognition depicts how the post-9/11 world mourns for the loss. The novel assumes that the post-9/11 world filled with open wound suffers from the loss of sense of security, the loss of linear concept of time, and the loss of wholeness and coherence of presence and narrative, drifting between the collapse of the old order by terrorism and our unpreparedness for a new order. As a consequence, the world traumatized by such losses becomes vulnerable and precarious only to fall into the state of not knowing. Demonstrating that its protagonist finally overcomes her trauma, the novel concludes that despite the vulnerability of life and narrative, a partial and personal mourning for loss arising from terror is able to be realized though trauma and a sense of insecurity still remain in the post-9/11 world.
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