British and American Representations of 9/11 Literature, Politics and the Media /

• Main Author: Gheorghiu, Oana-Celia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Fiction.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; United States-Study and teaching.; Communication.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; American Culture.; Media and Communication.

This book argues that twenty-first-century neorealist fiction is inspired by political and journalistic discourses and, along with them, constitutes one of the many representations of the attacks on September 11 and their outcomes. Adopting a neorealist stance, this book is placed at the intersectio...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction - Towards Another Reading of 9/11 Neorealist Fiction
• 2. Making History: Politics and the Media in the Twenty-First Century
• 3. Literary Re-writings of History and Politics after 9/11
• 4. The Shattered Self of the West
• 5. Extreme Otherness: 'The Muslim Menace'
• 6. Afterthoughts.