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Plotting justice [[electronic resource] ] : narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 / / Georgiana Banita



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Autore: Banita Georgiana Visualizza persona
Titolo: Plotting justice [[electronic resource] ] : narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 / / Georgiana Banita Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (375 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.6093587393
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence
Ethics in literature
Psychoanalysis in literature
Social change in literature
Literature and morals
Literature and society - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: new ethics, new literatures, new Americas -- Falling man fiction : Delillo, Spiegelman, Shulman, and the spectatorial condition -- Sex and sense : McGrath, Tristram, and psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib -- Moral crusades : race, risk, and Walt Whitman's afterlives -- The internationalization of conscience : Hemon, Barker, Balkanism -- Reading for the pattern : narrative, data mining, and the transnational ethics of surveillance -- Conclusion : postincendiary circumstances.
Sommario/riassunto: Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 shifted the moral coordinates of contemporary fiction? And how might such a shift, reflected in narrative strategies and forms, relate to other themes and trends emerging with the globalization of literature? This book pursues these questions through works written in the wake of 9/11 and examines the complex intersection of ethics and narrative that has defined a significant portion of British and American fiction over the past decade.Don DeLillo, Pat Barker, Aleksandar Hemon, Lorraine Adams, Michael Cunningham, and Patrick McGrath are among the
Altri titoli varianti: Narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11
Titolo autorizzato: Plotting justice  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-57227-3
9786613884725
0-8032-4461-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785619403321
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