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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.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
Info autore
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.
