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Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror - Images of Insecurity, Narratives of Captivity (Hardcover)
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Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror - Images of Insecurity, Narratives of Captivity (Hardcover)
Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
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Extending the study of post-9/11 literature to include
transnational perspectives, this book explores the ways in which
contemporary writers from Europe as well as the USA have responded
to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the ensuing 'war on
terror.' Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror'
demonstrates the ways in which contemporary fiction has wrestled
with anxieties about national and international security in the
21st century. Reading a wide range of novels by such writers as Amy
Waldman, Michael Cunningham, Frederic Beigbeder, Ian McEwan, Joseph
O'Neill, Moshin Hamid, Jose Saramago, Ricardo Menendez Salmon, J.M.
Coetzee and Salman Rushdie, Susana Araujo explores how the rhetoric
of the 'war on terror' has shaped recent representations of the
city and how "security" discourses circulate transatlantically and
transnationally. By focusing not only on 9/11 but also on the way
subsequent events such as the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq are
represented in fiction, this book demonstrates how notions of
"terror" and "insecurity" have been absorbed, reworked or critiqued
in fiction. Araujo examines to what extent transatlantic relations
have reinforced or challenged new fictions of "white western middle
class captivity."
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