Women's fiction and post-9/11 contexts / edited by Peter Childs, Claire Colebrook and Sebastian Groes ; contributors, Peter Childs [and twelve others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Childs, Peter, 1962- editor, contributor.

Colebrook, Claire, editor.

Groes, Sebastian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Fiction.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>Rather than accept that there is a single body of literature that can be labeled "women's writing," this volume explores the ways in which twenty-first-century crises have problematized identity, literature, and narration. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Counter-Apocalyptic, Counter-Sex; Chapter Two: The Turn to Precarity in Twenty-First-Century Fiction; Chapter Three: Aesthetics, Form and Consolation in Zadie Smith's On Beauty; Chapter Four: Against Spectacle; Chapter Five: Beyond Queer Time after 9/11; Chapter Six: The Naming of Love, or Reading Anne Enright's The Gathering against Derrida's The Politics of Friendship; Chapter Seven: Ordinary Sublime; Chapter Eight: Lionel Shriver's (We Need to Talk About) Kevin; Chapter Nine: Counter-discourses in Post-9/11 Muslim Women's Narratives

Chapter Ten: In the Light of A.L. Kennedy's DayChapter Eleven: "Please don't hate me, sensitive girl readers"; Chapter Twelve: "How did it come to this"; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-0096-X

OCLC:

894895114