Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror 9781472508768

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Literary studies: from c 1900

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Bloomsbury publishing (uk)

Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror : Bloomsbury Academic : 9781472508768 : 1472508769 : 22 Oct 2015 : 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, Frédéric Beigbeder, Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Neill, Moshin Hamid, José Saramago, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, J.M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie, Susana Araújo 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 no

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