TRAUMA AND FICTIONS OF THE 'WAR ON TERROR' : disrupting memory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Sarah.

Series:

Routledge research in American literature and culture.

Routledge research in American literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2021.

Summary:

This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "war on terror" to advocate for marginalised perspectives. Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" conceptualises global political discourse about the "war on terror" as incongruous, with transnational memory frames instituted in Western nations centralising 9/11 as uniquely traumatic, excluding the historical and present-day experiences of Afghans under Western--specifically American--hegemonic violence. Recent developments in trauma studies explain how dominant Western trauma theory participates in this exclusion, failing to account for the ongoing suffering common to non-Western, colonial, and postcolonial contexts. O'Brien explores how Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner), Nadeem Aslam (The Wasted Vigil, The Blind Man's Garden), and Kamila Shamsie (Burnt Shadows) represent marginalised perspectives in the context of the "war on terror".

Contents:

Intro

Endorsements

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Transnational Memory Discourse

Transnationalism and the Post-9/11 Trauma Narrative

Media, Memory, and the "War on Terror

Trauma and Post-9/11 Fiction from the Margins

Notes

References

1. Translating Trauma in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

Bildungsroman

Trauma

Emigration to America

Witnessing and Return to Agency

Conclusion

2. Shared Graves: Empire and Trauma in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil

Aslam as Transnational Writer

Sites of Memory and Trauma: The House

Lara, David, and the Cold War in Afghanistan

Post-9/11 Afghanistan: Casa, Dunia, and James

Conclusion: A Shared Grave

3. Haunted Communities: Tracing the Ghosts of the "War on Terror" in Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden

9/11, Trauma and Worsening Global Relations-Aslam's Response

Missing in Afghanistan

The Brick Factory: Torture and Imperial Violence in Afghanistan

Ghost-Making and Haunted Communities: Mourning and Melancholia in Heer

4. Spectres of Empire in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie as Transnational Writer

The Birth and Death of Empire: Nagasaki and the End of the British Raj

Legacies of Empire: Trauma, Family, and Language

Burnt Shadows: Ghosts, 9/11, and Paranoid Imperialism

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-317221-0

1-003-17221-0

1-000-38632-5

1-000-38642-2

9781003172215

OCLC:

1244622767