Twenty-first century fictions of terrorism /

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century. Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keeble, Arin, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From traumatic rupture to systemic crisis in the twenty-first century novel of terrorism
  • Revisiting the Anglophone 9/11 novel: Domesticity, metafiction and exceptionalism
  • Writing the "clash of civilizations": Racism, difference and terrorism
  • The novel of terrorism and the War on Terror
  • Contemporary historical novels of terrorism
  • Genre, policing and terrorism
  • Conclusion: New event-based narratives of terrorism.