Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel

Joseph Conte (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-23958-3 (ISBN)

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Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational politics. While much of the criticism regarding novels of 9/11 tends to approach these works through theories of personal and collective trauma, this book argues for the evolution of a post-9/11 novel that pursues a transversal approach to global conflicts that are unlikely to be resolved without diverse peoples willing to set aside sectarian interests. These novels embrace not only American writers such as Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Ken Kalfus, Thomas Pynchon, and Amy Waldman but also the countervailing perspectives of global novelists such as J. M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Mohsin Hamid, and Laila Halaby. These are not novels about terror(ism), nor do they seek comfort in the respectful cloak of national mourning. Rather, they are instances of the novel in terror, which recognizes that everything having been changed after 9/11, only the formally inventive presentation will suffice to acknowledge the event’s unpresentability and its shock to the political order.

Joseph M. Conte is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, where he teaches twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. He received his Ph.D. in from Stanford University. His books include Design & Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction and Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry.

Introduction: The Politics of the Unpresentable: The Post-9/11 Novel

Chapter One: The Ruins of the Future: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis

Chapter Two: The Age of Terror: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man

Chapter Three: Alternating Currents of History: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day

Chapter Four: The Politics of Narrative: J. M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year

Chapter Five: The Novelist’s Black Veil: Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

Chapter Six: Transversal Cosmopolitanism in the Post-9/11 Novel

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-23958-1 / 1032239581
ISBN-13	978-1-032-23958-3 / 9781032239583
Zustand	Neuware