The Post-9/11 City in Novels

Karolina Golimowska holds a PhD in American Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and currently teaches at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. In 2013 she was a visiting professor at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia and in 2014 a visiting scholar at NYU in New York City. She is also a translator and author of short prose and journalistic pieces and has been awarded with the German-Polish Journalism Award.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Reactions to 9/11 in American and British City Novels

Part One: New York

I. ­Remapping New York City in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

II. Metropolis as Source of Literary Energy: Teju Cole’s Open City

III. The Ambiguity of the Other in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy

IV. The Plurality of Voices and Urban Paths in Amy Waldman’s The Submission: The Metaphors of Submission

Part Two: London

V. Unpredictable and Insane: London as a Body, London as Brain

VI. Hemisphere 1: London East End

VII. Hemisphere 2: London West End in Ian McEwan’s Saturday

VIII. New York versus London: Joseph ­O’Neill’s Netherland

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index