Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. American Melancholia 19
6. 2. Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers 49
7. 3. A Rose Is Not a Rose Is Not a Rose 79
8. 4. Exorcising the Ghost 121
9. 5. September 11 and the Other 149
10. Epilogue 183
11. Notes 195
12. Bibliography 203
13. Index 217