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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788296203321

Autore

Gauthier Tim S.

Titolo

9/11 fiction, empathy, and otherness / / Tim Gauthier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-7936-0066-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

813/.6093587393

Soggetti

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature

Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

Empathy in literature

Other (Philosophy) in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Permissions; Introduction; 1 Empathetically Unsettled; 2 Otherness as Counternarrative in the Graphic Novel; 3 French Fiction and the Utopian Potential of 9/11; 4 "Toward These Uncanny Young Men"; 5 "Selective in Your Mercies"; 6 The Otherness of Islam in Amy Waldman's The Submission; 7 Communal Trauma?; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-weight:bold;"">Tim Gauthier</span><span> is director of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  </span></span>