| 9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Frank, Svenja (Editor) |
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ISBN: 331987747X ISBN-13: 9783319877471 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
| Dewey: 809 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.05 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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