Plotting justice [[electronic resource] ] : narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 / / Georgiana Banita
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Banita Georgiana
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Plotting justice [[electronic resource] ] : narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 / / Georgiana Banita
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-283-57227-3 |
| 9786613884725 | |
| 0-8032-4461-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785619403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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