Topologies of Fear in Contemporary Fiction [electronic resource] : The Anxieties of Post-Nationalism and Counter Terrorism /
McClintock, Scott.author.
The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on terrorism in literature.
Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Geography of Anger and the Diaspora of Terrorism; 2 Guantánamo Confidential: Inscription of the Subject in Literature and Law, and Detainees as Legal Non- Persons at Camp X- Ray; 3 Travels Outside the Empire: The Revision of Subaltern Historiography in Amitav Ghosha; 4 Images for a Godless World: Violence After the Sacred in the Millennial Indian Novel; 5 The Sublime Object of Terror in Thomas Pynchon
6 Looking Backward at Joseph McElroy's Lookout Cartridge: Mining Neural Neighborhoods and Social Networks in Postmodern Fiction7 Conclusion: Four Covering Principles for the Time of Terrorism; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on terrorism in literature.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
America-Literatures.
Topology.
Terrorism.
Political violence.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
North American Literature.
Topology.
Terrorism and Political Violence.