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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Araújo, Susana, author.

Series:

New horizons in contemporary writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in art.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Fiction.

War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 217 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 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 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 focussing 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Images of Terror, Narratives of (In)security 1

2 The New "New York Novel": The Epicenter and Its Reverberations 19

3 Early Transatlantic Projections: Frédéric Beigbeder and Ian McEwan 45

4 Democratic Vistas: Michael Cunningham and Walt Whitman 65

5 Cosmopolitan Attempts: Joseph O'Neill and Mohsin Hamid 87

6 Terror in the European Periphery: Ricardo Menéndez Salmón and José Saramago 113

7 Beyond the Transatlantic Nexus: Salman Rushdie and J.M. Coetzee 137

8 Transatlantic Fictions: Captivity, Security, and Futurity 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-201) and index.

ISBN:

9781472508768

1472508769

OCLC:

925479836