Fictions of the War on Terror [electronic resource] : Difference and the Transnational 9/11 Novel /
O'Gorman, D.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 'The stories of anywhere are also the stories of everywhere else': Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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.
America—Literatures.
Literature—History and criticism.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
North American Literature.
Literary History.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.