Editors:
Reorients 9/11 literature within a European framework, showing the event’s impact on contemporary writing and thought
Incorporates timely discussions of national, historical, and global trauma and memory
Positions writing from a wide variety of European countries in dialogue with each other to illuminate a greater narrative
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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September 11 Seen Through European Media and Semiotic Theory
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Literary Translations of September 11 into Europe’s National Contexts
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Negotiating European Identity After September 11 Through the Double Other of the US and Islam
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About this book
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.
Keywords
- 9/11 Europe
- National Trauma
- September 11 attacks
- Muslim society
- post-national identities
- Thomas Kling
- Colum McCann
- Let the Great World Spin
- middle east
- 9/11 social media
- cultural and historical memory
- Ian McEwan Saturday
- Bernhard Schlink
- Adam Zagajewski
- Oriana Fallaci Trilogy
- literary culture after 9/11
- Frederic Beigbeder Windows of the World
- Thomas Tettche
- terrorist attacks literature
- Twin Towers: poesie
Editors and Affiliations
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Promotionsprogramm Textwissenschaften, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Svenja Frank
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 9/11 in European Literature
Book Subtitle: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed
Editors: Svenja Frank
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64209-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64208-6Published: 21 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87747-1Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64209-3Published: 28 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 386
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature