9/11 in European Literature
Svenja Frank (Hrsg.)
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Springer International Publishing
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen
Beschreibung
This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others—the US nation and a cultural-ethnic idea of Muslim communities—it also analyses examples which undermine such constructions. This much more self-critical strand in European literature unveils the Eurocentrism of a supposedly general humanistic value system through the use of complex aesthetic strategies. These strategies are in itself characteristic of the European reception as the Anglo-Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Polish perspectives collected in this volume perceive of the terror attacks through the lens of continental media and semiotic theory.
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Colum McCann, September 11 attacks, Twin Towers: poesie, Bernhard Schlink, Let the Great World Spin, Thomas Tettche, Frederic Beigbeder Windows of the World, Oriana Fallaci Trilogy, Adam Zagajewski, National Trauma, terrorist attacks literature, post-national identities, literary culture after 9/11, 9/11 Europe, 9/11 social media, Thomas Kling, Muslim society, cultural and historical memory, middle east, Ian McEwan Saturday