Description
| Product ID: | 9780367443030 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture |
| Title: | Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" |
| Subtitle: | Disrupting Memory |
| Authors: | Author: Sarah O'Brien |
| Page Count: | 182 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Colonialism and imperialism, Terrorism, armed struggle, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Colonialism & imperialism, Terrorism, armed struggle |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book explores how transnational fiction can intervene in discourse surrounding the ‘war on terror’ to advocate for marginalised perspectives. This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "war on terror" to advocate for marginalised perspectives. Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" conceptualises global political discourse about the "war on terror" as incongruous, with transnational memory frames instituted in Western nations centralising 9/11 as uniquely traumatic, excluding the historical and present-day experiences of Afghans under Western—specifically American—hegemonic violence. Recent developments in trauma studies explain how dominant Western trauma theory participates in this exclusion, failing to account for the ongoing suffering common to non-Western, colonial, and postcolonial contexts. O’Brien explores how Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner), Nadeem Aslam (The Wasted Vigil, The Blind Man’s Garden), and Kamila Shamsie (Burnt Shadows) represent marginalised perspectives in the context of the "war on terror".
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| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-05-19 |
