9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Frank, Svenja (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319642081 ISBN-13: 9783319642086 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 809 |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" L (1.38 lbs) 386 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description:
This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others--the US nation and a cultural-ethnic idea of Muslim communities--it also analyses examples which undermine such constructions. This much more self-critical strand in European literature unveils the Eurocentrism of a supposedly general humanistic value system through the use of complex aesthetic strategies. These strategies are in itself characteristic of the European reception as the Anglo-Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Polish perspectives collected in this volume perceive of the terror attacks through the lens of continental media and semiotic theory.
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