Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Keeble, Arin

Edinburgh University Press（2026/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474478687

Full Description

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 early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the 9/11 novel genre, the book moves through more recent depictions of the endless 'war on terror', state terror, white nationalist terror and historical narratives of terror that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sense of both the reasons why terrorism occurs and the effects it has on victims, survivors and international and intercultural relations.

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From Traumatic Rupture to Systemic Crisis in the Twenty-First Century Novel of Terrorism

1. Revisiting the Anglophone 9/11 Novel: Domesticity, Metafiction and Exceptionalism

2. Writing the 'Clash of Civilizations': Racism, Difference and Terrorism

3. The Novel of Terrorism and the War on Terror

4. Contemporary Historical Novels of Terrorism

5. Genre, Policing and Terrorism

Conclusion: New Event-Based Narratives of Terrorism

Index