Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel

ISBN-13: 9781032239583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 278 str.

Joseph Conte

Opis

Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational politics.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Politics of the Unpresentable: The Post-9/11 Novel

Chapter One: The Ruins of the Future: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis

Chapter Two: The Age of Terror: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man

Chapter Three: Alternating Currents of History: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day

Chapter Four: The Politics of Narrative: J. M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year

Chapter Five: The Novelist’s Black Veil: Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

Chapter Six: Transversal Cosmopolitanism in the Post-9/11 Novel

O autorze

Joseph M. Conte is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, where he teaches twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. He received his Ph.D. in from Stanford University. His books include Design & Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction and Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry.