Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts.
Childs, Peter.
Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (235 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Counter-Apocalyptic, Counter-Sex -- Chapter Two: The Turn to Precarity in Twenty-First-Century Fiction -- Chapter Three: Aesthetics, Form and Consolation in Zadie Smith's On Beauty -- Chapter Four: Against Spectacle -- Chapter Five: Beyond Queer Time after 9/11 -- Chapter Six: The Naming of Love, or Reading Anne Enright's The Gathering against Derrida's The Politics of Friendship -- Chapter Seven: Ordinary Sublime -- Chapter Eight: Lionel Shriver's (We Need to Talk About) Kevin -- Chapter Nine: Counter-discourses in Post-9/11 Muslim Women's Narratives -- Chapter Ten: In the Light of A.L. Kennedy's Day -- Chapter Eleven: "Please don't hate me, sensitive girl readers" -- Chapter Twelve: "How did it come to this" -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Rather than accept that there is a single body of literature that can be labeled "women's writing," this volume explores the ways in which twenty-first-century crises have problematized identity, literature, and narration.
9781498500968
Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN3401 .W55 2014
809.3/0082
Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (235 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Counter-Apocalyptic, Counter-Sex -- Chapter Two: The Turn to Precarity in Twenty-First-Century Fiction -- Chapter Three: Aesthetics, Form and Consolation in Zadie Smith's On Beauty -- Chapter Four: Against Spectacle -- Chapter Five: Beyond Queer Time after 9/11 -- Chapter Six: The Naming of Love, or Reading Anne Enright's The Gathering against Derrida's The Politics of Friendship -- Chapter Seven: Ordinary Sublime -- Chapter Eight: Lionel Shriver's (We Need to Talk About) Kevin -- Chapter Nine: Counter-discourses in Post-9/11 Muslim Women's Narratives -- Chapter Ten: In the Light of A.L. Kennedy's Day -- Chapter Eleven: "Please don't hate me, sensitive girl readers" -- Chapter Twelve: "How did it come to this" -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Rather than accept that there is a single body of literature that can be labeled "women's writing," this volume explores the ways in which twenty-first-century crises have problematized identity, literature, and narration.
9781498500968
Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN3401 .W55 2014
809.3/0082