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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788074303321

Titolo

Women's fiction and post-9/11 contexts / / edited by Peter Childs, Claire Colebrook and Sebastian Groes ; contributors, Peter Childs [and twelve others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0096-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/0082

Soggetti

Fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence

Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 DayChapter Eleven: "Please don't hate me, sensitive girl readers"; Chapter Twelve: "How did it come to this"; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>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. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>