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Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" - Disrupting Memory (Hardcover)
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Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" - Disrupting Memory (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
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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".
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