The Post-9/11 Great American Novel : Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheikh, Sheheryar, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Islamophobia in literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.

White people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

A study of the confluences between liberal white Americans' trauma, their reverting to hyper-conservative Islamophobia, and Don DeLillo's call to American authors that they compose a new so-called 'Great American Novel' pluriverse in the wake of 9/11.

Contents:

Introduction: New Connections to the American Project in Early Post-9/11 Literature

1. Creating Monsters Out of Trauma: The Failed Repression of Muslims and Islam in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2. Americanizing 9/11: Appropriating and Repurposing Islamic Signifiers in Don DeLillo's Falling Man

3. Losing Their Religion: Enforced Secularization in John Updike's Terrorist

4. Not Exceptional Enough: The Occlusion of Muslims and the Quran in Amy Waldman's The Submission

Conclusion: The Ultimate End, and the Limits of the Post-9/11 Great American Novel

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798765134443

9798765134436

9798765134429

OCLC:

1520506988