The Post-9/11 City in Novels : Literary Remappings of New York and London

Golimowska, Karolina

McFarland & Co Inc（2016/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 212 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786499373
• DDC分類 823.920932

Full Description

Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement. It also suggests a need for remapping the real and imagined spaces where we live and work. Through close readings of novels from both sides of the Atlantic, this analysis of the literary 21st century metropolis explores the fictional post-9/11 city as a global space not defined or contained by its physical limits.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Reactions to 9/11 in American and British City Novels

Part One: New York

I. ­Remapping New York City in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

II. Metropolis as Source of Literary Energy: Teju Cole's Open City

III. The Ambiguity of the Other in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and H.M. Naqvi's Home Boy

IV. The Plurality of Voices and Urban Paths in Amy Waldman's The Submission: The Metaphors of Submission

Part Two: London

V. Unpredictable and Insane: London as a Body, London as Brain

VI. Hemisphere 1: London East End

VII. Hemisphere 2: London West End in Ian McEwan's Saturday

VIII. New York versus London: Joseph ­O'Neill's Netherland

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index