Is it safe to say we are living in a post, post-9/11 world?

[JohnFKennedy]

Instead of all jumping on the partisan and somewhat inane nature of Naso's post, perhaps we should shift this and ask whether we are living in a world that is culturally 'post-9/11'?

'Postcolonialism' has produced some of the finest literature in history - in my opinion at least - both from the metropole and the periphery; while 9/11 may pale in significance as an 'event' in comparison, do we think that this has had and will continue to have a major cultural impact? I can think of a few works that have been described as being culturally 'post-9/11' - Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, which I admit to not having read so I can't really comment - but is this the dawning of a new cultural and literary movement or is it just - as Gully put it - a 'blip'?

[JohnFKennedy]

Okay...so if postcolonialism is perhaps associated with the idea of 'displacement' - somewhat crude I will admit - then post-9/11'ism' would be characterized by despair perhaps?

Personally, I think that the idea of 'post 9/11' is sort of an occidental notion of postcolonialism and that it is more likely to spawn a new wave of western postcolonial writers than it is to spawn its own new cultural discourse.