Transatlantic fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror : images of insecurity, narratives of captivity /

Transatlantic fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror : images of insecurity, narratives of captivity /

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Author / Creator:	Araújo, Susana, author.
Imprint:	London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	New horizons in contemporary writing New horizons in contemporary writing.
Subject:	September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in art. September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755109

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ISBN:	9781472507556 147250755X 9781472506047 1472506049 9781474218726 1474218725 9781472508768 1472508769
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 10, 2015)
Summary:	"Extending the study of post-9/11 literature to include transnational perspectives, this book explores the ways in which contemporary writers from Europe as well as the USA have responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the ensuing "war on terror." Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror demonstrates the ways in which contemporary fiction has wrestled with anxieties about national and international security in the 21st century. Reading a wide range of novels by such writers as Amy Waldman, Michael Cunningham, Frďřic Beigbeder, Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Neill, Moshin Hamid, Jos ̌Saramago, Ricardo Menňdez Salmn̤, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, Susana Araj︢o︣ explores how the rhetoric of the "war on terror" has shaped recent representations of the city and how "security" discourses circulate both transatlantically and transnationally. By focussing not only on 9/11 but on the way subsequent events such as the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq are represented in fiction, this book demonstrates how notions of "terror" and "insecurity" have been absorbed, critiqued, or reworked by novelists from the US and Europe as well as by writers whose work focusses on the role of transatlantic relations as part of wider pressures and global configurations of power."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Other form:	Hardback 9781472508768

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Summary:	Extending the study of post-9/11 literature to include transnational perspectives, this book explores the ways in which contemporary writers from Europe as well as the USA have responded to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the ensuing 'war on terror.' Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' demonstrates the ways in which contemporary fiction has wrestled with anxieties about national and international security in the 21st century. Reading a wide range of novels by such writers as Amy Waldman, Michael Cunningham, Frédéric Beigbeder, Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Neill, Moshin Hamid, José Saramago, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, J.M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie, Susana Araújo explores how the rhetoric of the 'war on terror' has shaped recent representations of the city and how "security" discourses circulate transatlantically and transnationally. By focusing not only on 9/11 but also on the way subsequent events such as the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq are represented in fiction, this book demonstrates how notions of "terror" and "insecurity" have been absorbed, reworked or critiqued in fiction. Araújo examines to what extent transatlantic relations have reinforced or challenged new fictions of "white western middle class captivity."
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781472507556 147250755X 9781472506047 1472506049 9781474218726 1474218725 9781472508768 1472508769