The Writing of Terrorism: Contemporary American Fiction and Maurice Blanchot (Hardcover, New edition)

Terrorism has long been a popular subject for American fiction writers. This book argues that terrorism in 1990s novels by Paul Auster, Philip Roth, and Bret Easton Ellis serves as a key trope to interrogate the limits of writing and the power of literature. Based on the complex literary and philosophical thought of Maurice Blanchot, this study deals with the writer's terrorist temptation, language's investment in violence, and literature's negotiation of radical alterity. Auster's, Roth's, and Ellis's novels elucidate contemporary political and economic developments as well as our cultural fear of, and fascination with, terrorism. The writing of terrorism can thus become the foundation of a different politics where, according to Maurice Blanchot, "there is no explosion except a book."

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Transcription, 10
Release date:	December 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Christian Kloeckner
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-71410-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	3-631-71410-6
Barcode:	9783631714102

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