Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement. It also suggests a need for remapping the real and imagined spaces where we live and work. Through close readings of novels from both sides of the Atlantic, this analysis of the literary 21st century metropolis explores the fictional post-9/11 city as a global space not defined or contained by its physical limits.
Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement. It also suggests a need for remapping the real and imagined spaces where we live and work. Through close readings of novels from both sides of the Atlantic, this analysis of the literary 21st century metropolis explores the fictional post-9/11 city as a global space not defined or contained by its physical limits.
Karolina Golimowska teaches at Humboldt-Universitat in Berlin. She is also a translator and an author of short prose and journalistic pieces. In 2014 she was awarded with the German-Polish Journalism Award.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Reactions to 9/11 in American and British City Novels Part One: New York I. Remapping New York City in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close II. Metropolis as Source of Literary Energy: Teju Cole's Open City III. The Ambiguity of the Other in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and H.M. Naqvi's Home Boy IV. The Plurality of Voices and Urban Paths in Amy Waldman's The Submission: The Metaphors of Submission Part Two: London V. Unpredictable and Insane: London as a Body, London as Brain VI. Hemisphere 1: London East End VII. Hemisphere 2: London West End in Ian McEwan's Saturday VIII. New York versus London: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Reactions to 9/11 in American and British City Novels Part One: New York I. Remapping New York City in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close II. Metropolis as Source of Literary Energy: Teju Cole's Open City III. The Ambiguity of the Other in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and H.M. Naqvi's Home Boy IV. The Plurality of Voices and Urban Paths in Amy Waldman's The Submission: The Metaphors of Submission Part Two: London V. Unpredictable and Insane: London as a Body, London as Brain VI. Hemisphere 1: London East End VII. Hemisphere 2: London West End in Ian McEwan's Saturday VIII. New York versus London: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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