Trauma and Fictions of the 'War on Terror' - Disrupting Memory

This book explores how transnational fiction can intervene in discourse surrounding the 'war on terror' to advocate for marginalised perspectives.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Translating Trauma in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
Chapter Two: Shared Graves: Empire and Trauma in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil
Chapter Three: Haunted Communities: Tracing the Ghosts of the ‘war on terror’ in Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden
Chapter Four: Spectres of Empire in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows
Conclusion

About the author

Sarah O’Brien (PhD) completed her doctoral work at Maynooth University, Ireland, in 2019. Her research areas relate to trauma, memory, south Asian fictions of the "war on terror," and postcolonial and world literatures more broadly.

Summary

This book explores how transnational fiction can intervene in discourse surrounding the ‘war on terror’ to advocate for marginalised perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah O’Brien, Sarah O'Brien, Sarah O''brien, O'Brien Sarah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367443030
• ISBN: 978-0-367-44303-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Colonialism & imperialism, Terrorism, armed struggle, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature