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Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts
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2014
Summary
9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed “clash of civilizations,” and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no date, since Virginia Woolf declared that “on or about December 1910 human character changed,” has marked such a singular point in the perception of time, identity and nature. Women’s writing has always been something of a counter-canon, offering modes of voice and point of view beyond that of the “man” of reason. This collection of essays explores the two problems of what it means to write as a woman and what it means to write in the twenty-first century.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-0095-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-0096-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
207
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Counter-Apocalyptic, Counter-Sex No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter Two: The Turn to Precarity in Twenty-First-Century Fiction No access Pages 17 - 34
Chapter Three: Aesthetics, Form and Consolation in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty No access Pages 35 - 50
Chapter Four: Against Spectacle No access Pages 51 - 64
Chapter Five: Beyond Queer Time after 9/11 No access Pages 65 - 80
Chapter Six: The Naming of Love, or Reading Anne Enright’s The Gathering against Derrida’s The Politics of Friendship No access Pages 81 - 94
Chapter Seven: Ordinary Sublime No access Pages 95 - 106
Chapter Eight: Lionel Shriver’s (We Need to Talk About) Kevin No access Pages 107 - 124
Chapter Nine: Counter-discourses in Post-9/11 Muslim Women’s Narratives No access Pages 125 - 140
Chapter Ten: In the Light of A.L. Kennedy’s Day No access Pages 141 - 158
Chapter Eleven: “Please don’t hate me, sensitive girl readers” No access Pages 159 - 178
Chapter Twelve: “How did it come to this” No access Pages 179 - 194
