9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed

Frank, Svenja

This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature. In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity. While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others—the US nation and a cultural-ethnic idea of Muslim communities—it also analyses examples which undermine such constructions. This much more self-critical strand in European literature unveils the Eurocentrism of a supposedly general humanistic value system through the use of complex aesthetic strategies. These strategies are in itself characteristic of the European reception as the Anglo-Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Polish perspectives collected in this volume perceive of the terror attacks through the lens of continental media and semiotic theory.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2017-12-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319642086

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64209-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 386