Literary recognition: Representation of Islam and Muslims in post-9/11 novels
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Lesley Joan Gissane
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Western Sydney University (Australia)
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2017
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264
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=9781083639936
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Ph.D.
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Western Sydney University (Australia)
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2017
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The emerging field of post-9/11 literary studies is now well into its second decade. During this short span, a small group of novels has dominated the field in an early process of canonisation. Don DeLillo's Falling Man is pivotal to the nascent genre but other novels such as Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close also quickly became exemplars of the United States' literary response to tragedy, and have remained important in the scholarly endeavours that followed. Even more evident is the dominance of trauma studies as the paradigm for analysis of the genre, partly because of the obvious connection with the content of the literature and the historical events that instigated its development. The effects of these early trends have had particular implications for the analysis of the representation of Islam and Muslims in the post-9/11 literary context.
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Modern literature; American literature; Literary translation; Context; Literary criticism; German; Novels; Recognition; Politics; Otherness
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(UMI)AAI10833367;Language, literature and linguistics