Ideological battlegrounds - constructions of us and them before and after 9/11
Subtitle: Perspectives in literatures and cultures
By: edited by Joanna Witkowsk and Uwe Zagratzki
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishinig
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781443858915
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Islamization of Islam; title: Ideology, authenticity, and reception in World Trade Center; title: Infidels and martyrs : popular and scientific discourses on picturing Muslims after 9/11 in the context of the US military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan; title: "Difficult topics such as politics, discrimination, attacks and so on" : 9/11 in Dutch literature; title: Michael Chabon's The Yiddish policemen's union as a 9/11 novel; title: The ambiguity of the "other" in the post-9/11 novels The reluctant fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid and Home boy (2009) by H.M. Haqvi; title: Us and them in Terry Pratchett's pre- and post-9/11 Discworld novels; title: "Terrorists win" : identity, censorship and terrorism in post-9/11 videogames; title: Criticism of America in James Kelman's novel You have to be careful in the land of the free; title: A perceptual crisis? 9/11 and the American paranoid histories; title: From "infrequent shock to ... main thread of the plot" : professional technqiues of torture and the discursive participation of Fox's TV-series 24 since 9/11; title: Film representations of the Muslim in American 9/11 movies : an attempt to understand the other; title: "On the transmigration of meaning" : essay on the remembrance of 9/11 in symphonic music; title: George Orwell's colonial other : the perversity of imperialistic sterotyping.