Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 [electronic resource] : The Wrong Side of Paradise /
Miller, K.editor.
Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace. Analyzing transatlantic literature and culture, the book refocuses our view of Ground Zero through the lenses of imperial power and cosmopolitan exchange.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Wrong Side of Paradise: American Exceptionalism and the Special Relationship After 9/11; Part I: Empire; 1 Paradoxical Polemics: John le Carré's Responses to 9/11; 2 The (Inter)national Bond: James Bond and the Special Relationship; 3 221B-9/11: Sherlock Holmes and Conspiracy Theory; Part II: Cosmopolis; 4 Behind the Face of Terror: Hamid, Malkani, and Multiculturalism after 9/11
5 "Scandalous Memoir": Uncovering Silences and Reclaiming the Disappeared in Mahvish Rukhsana Kahn's My Guantánamo Diary6 Joseph O'Neill and the Post-9/11 Novel; 7 An Interview with Joseph O'Neill; Part III: City; 8 9/11 Theater: The Story of New York or the Nation?; 9 Flying Man and Falling Man: Remembering and Forgetting 9/11; 10 "I'm Only Just Starting to Look": Media, Art, and Literature After 9/11; 11 Archifictions: Constructing September 11; 12 The New Grotesque in Jess Walter's The Zero: A Commentary and Interview; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace. Analyzing transatlantic literature and culture, the book refocuses our view of Ground Zero through the lenses of imperial power and cosmopolitan exchange.
America-Literatures.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
North American Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Literary History.