Topologies of fear in contemporary fiction : the anxieties of post-nationalism and counter terrorism /
"Unlike other studies which have focused mainly on the response to the 9/11 attacks in writing from the United States, Topologies of Fear in Contemporary Fiction is global and comparative in its approach. It emphasizes the depiction in twentieth-century fiction of the transnational character of...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
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- 1. Introduction: The Geography of Anger and the Diaspora of Terrorism2.Guantánamo Confidential: Inscription of the Subject In Literature and Law, and Detainees as Legal Non-Persons at Camp X-Ray3. Travels Outside the Empire: The Revision of Subaltern Historiography in Amitav Ghosh4. Images for a Godless World: Violence After the Sacred in the Millennial Indian Novel5.The Sublime Object of Terror in Thomas Pynchon6.Looking Backward at Joseph McElroy's Lookout Cartridge: Mining Neural Neighborhoods and Social Networks in Postmodern FictionConclusion: Four Covering Principles for the Time of TerrorismWorks CitedIndex.