Overview
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.
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Author: Karolina Golimowska
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.299kg
ISBN: 9780786499373
ISBN 10: 0786499370
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 10 March 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
this book is a useful addition to studies of the contemporary metropolis in literature, especially in relation to trauma studies and post-9/11 studies --Ethnic & Third World Literatures Review of Books.
"""this book is a useful addition to studies of the contemporary metropolis in literature, especially in relation to trauma studies and post-9/11 studies""--Ethnic & Third World Literatures Review of Books ""To add meaningfully to the already vast and ever growing body of scholarly work on the literature of 9/11 is a call of tall order. From the early treatments of key fictions such as Kristiaan Versluys's Out of the Blue (2009) to encyclopedic compendiums such as Birgit D�wes's Ground Zero Fiction (2011) and the numerous recent thematically focused analyses, scholars have turned to theories of trauma and of the spectacle, to the figure of the Other, to the transatlantic comparisons, and to the global geopolitical context to explain what sense contemporary Anglophone writers have made of the 9/11 terrorist attack and its ongoing reverberations in the early twentieth century. Karolina Golimowska is well-versed in, and capitalizes on, all these approaches, but she also manages to productively refocus the scholarly discussion of this body of work. ... Following these twenty-first century flaneurs with Golimowska, the readers not only recognize New York City and London convulsed into daily rituals of vehement othering already familiar from previous studies of post-9/11 fiction but also rediscover them as open cities, as the cosmopolises they have always been, only even more so, paradoxically, in the wake of 9/11. This new focus allows Golimowska to broaden the scholarly purview by including less familiar novels, or novels not usually discussed in the 9/11 context, and to offer fresh interpretations of the well-studied texts.""--Journal of American Culture"
Author Information
Karolina Golimowska holds a PhD in American Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and currently teaches at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. In 2013 she was a visiting professor at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia and in 2014 a visiting scholar at NYU in New York City. She is also a translator and author of short prose and journalistic pieces and has been awarded with the German-Polish Journalism Award.
