Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror: Images of Insecurity, Narratives of Captivity

Susana Araujo

ISBN 10: 1350030384 / ISBN 13: 9781350030381

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017

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Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 b/w. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror: Images of Insecurity, Narratives of Captivity
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350030384
• ISBN 13: 9781350030381
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 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. Araújo examines to what extent transatlantic relations have reinforced or challenged new fictions of “white western middle class captivity.”

About the Authors

Susana Araújo is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the author of the poetry book, Dívida Soberana (2012) and of numerous articles in recognised journals. She co-edited the books, Trans/American, Trans/oceanic, Trans/lation (2010), Inseguranças no Espaço Urbano (2012) and Fear and Fantasy in a Global World (2015) as well as several special issues in international periodicals.

Bryan Cheyette is Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Reading. He is the editor or author of ten books, most recently Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History (2014) and (with Peter Boxall) volume seven of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (on the British and Irish novel, 1940-present) (2016). He reviews contemporary fiction and criticism for the Times Literary Supplement and various newspapers.

Martin Paul Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (2014); Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (2014); Password (2016); and Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict.