Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts.
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- 9781498500968
- 809.3/0082
- PN3401 .W55 2014
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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