Fictions of the War on Terror

Difference and the Transnational 9/11 Novel

Daniel O'Gorman, D O'Gorman (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

217 Seiten

2014 | 2015 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-70084-4 (ISBN)

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This book argues that there are a number of contemporary novels that challenge the reductive 'us and them' binaries that have been prevalent not only in politics and the global media since 9/11, but also in many works within the emerging genre of '9/11 fiction' itself.

Introduction 1. New Constellations: Judith Butler's 'Frame' and Dave Eggers' What Is the What 2. Gazing Inward in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City and Teju Cole's Open City 3. Connective Dissonance: Refiguring Difference in Fiction of the Iraq War 4. Ambivalent Alterities: Pakistani Post-9/11 Fiction in English 5. [T]he stories of anywhere are also the stories of everywhere else': Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence Conclusion Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	42624 • Fiction • Novel
ISBN-10	1-349-70084-3 / 1349700843
ISBN-13	978-1-349-70084-4 / 9781349700844
Zustand	Neuware