Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-219) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: The Geography of Anger and the Diaspora of Terrorism2. Guantánamo Confidential: Inscription of the Subject In Literature and Law, and Detainees as Legal Non-Persons at Camp X-Ray3. Travels Outside the Empire: The Revision of Subaltern Historiography in Amitav Ghosh4. Images for a Godless World: Violence After the Sacred in the Millennial Indian Novel5. The Sublime Object of Terror in Thomas Pynchon6. Looking Backward at Joseph McElroy's Lookout Cartridge: Mining Neural Neighborhoods and Social Networks in Postmodern FictionConclusion: Four Covering Principles for the Time of TerrorismWorks CitedIndex.
Summary:
"Unlike other studies which have focused mainly on the response to the 9/11 attacks in writing from the United States, Topologies of Fear in Contemporary Fiction is global and comparative in its approach. It emphasizes the depiction in twentieth-century fiction of the transnational character of terrorism and counterterrorism throughout the 20th century, rather than only the response to the 9/11 attacks. The book examines what critical tools are available from contemporary literary theory and critical legal studies to develop what the book calls 'anti-terror discourse critique.' This is an important text for scholars and students of literature, cultural studies, studies of media and visual culture, and critical legal philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.
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