Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-03038-1 (ISBN)
Reading a wide range of novels by such writers as Amy Waldman, Michael Cunningham, Frédéric Beigbeder, Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Neill, Moshin Hamid, José Saramago, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, J.M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie, Susana Araújo explores how the rhetoric of the 'war on terror' has shaped recent representations of the city and how “security” discourses circulate transatlantically and transnationally. By focusing not only on 9/11 but also on the way subsequent events such as the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq are represented in fiction, this book demonstrates how notions of “terror” and “insecurity” have been absorbed, reworked or critiqued in fiction. Araújo examines to what extent transatlantic relations have reinforced or challenged new fictions of “white western middle class captivity.”
Susana Araújo is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the author of the poetry book, Dívida Soberana (2012) and of numerous articles in recognised journals. She co-edited the books, Trans/American, Trans/oceanic, Trans/lation (2010), Inseguranças no Espaço Urbano (2012) and Fear and Fantasy in a Global World (2015) as well as several special issues in international periodicals.
1. Introduction: Fictions of Terror and Plots of Captivity
2. The New “New York Novel”: The Epicenter and its Reverberations
3. Transatlantic Anxieties: Frédéric Beigbeder and Ian McEwan
4. Democratic Vistas: Michael Cunningham and Walt Whitman
5. Cosmopolitan Attempts: Joseph O’Neill and Mohsin Hamid
6. Iberian Responses: José Saramago and Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
7. Beyond the Transatlantic Nexus: Salman Rushdie and J. M. Coetzee
8. Transatlantic Fictions: Security, Captivity, Futurity
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Horizons in Contemporary Writing |
Zusatzinfo | 11 b/w |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 327 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-03038-4 / 1350030384 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-03038-1 / 9781350030381 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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