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Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498500968
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 ContextsDDC classification:
  • 809.3/0082
LOC classification:
  • PN3401 .W55 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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