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Transatlantic literature and culture after 9/11 : the wrong side of paradise / edited by Kristine A. Miller, Utah State University, USA.

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"Looking back on a decade of the US-run and UK-supported 'war on terror', this volume examines how transatlantic literature and culture have challenged notions of American exceptionalism since 11 September 2001. The essays look not only at but also beyond the compulsion to relive this...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Miller, Kristine, 1966- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
English literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
Psychic trauma and mass media.
Terrorism in literature.
American literature.
English literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in mass media.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Kristine Miller, 'The Wrong Side of Paradise: American Exceptionalism and the Post-9/11 Special Relationship'
  • PART I: EMPIRE
  • 1. Phyllis Lassner, 'Paradoxical Polemics: John le Carre's Responses to 9/11'
  • 2. Jim Leach, 'The (Inter)national Bond: James Bond and the 'Special Relationship''
  • 3. Brian McCuskey, '221B-9/11: Sherlock Holmes and Conspiracy Theory'
  • PART II: COSMOPOLIS
  • 4. Lynda Ng, 'Behind the Face of Terror: Hamid, Malkani, and Multiculturalism After 9/11'
  • 5.M. Neelika Jayawardane, ''Scandalous Memoir': Uncovering Silences and Reclaiming the 'Disappeared' in Mahvish Rukhsana Khan's "My Guant̀€namo Diary"
  • 6. Matthew Brown, 'Joseph O'Neill and the Post-9/11 Novel'
  • 7. Laura Frost, 'An Interview with Joseph O'Neill'
  • PART III: CITY
  • 8. Lesley Broder, '9/11 Theater: The Story of New York or the Nation?'
  • 9. Graley Herren, 'Flying Man and Falling Man: Remembering and Forgetting 9/11'
  • 10. Crystal Alberts, ''I'm Only Just Starting to Look': Media, Art, and Literature after 9/11'
  • 11. Laura Frost, 'Archifictions: Constructing September 11'
  • 12. Anthony Flinn, 'The New Grotesque in Jess Walter's The Zero: A Commentary and Interview'

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