Sheheryar Sheikh

The Post-9/11 Great American Novel

Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the confluences between liberal white Americans' trauma, their reverting to hyper-conservative Islamophobia, and Don DeLillo's call to American authors that they compose a new so-called 'Great American Novel' pluriverse in the wake of 9/11.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765134405
• Artikelnr.: 73259543

Autorenporträt

Sheheryar Sheikh

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Connections to the American Project in Early Post-9/11
Literature
1. Creating Monsters Out of Trauma: The Failed Repression of Muslims and
Islam in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2. Americanizing 9/11: Appropriating and Repurposing Islamic Signifiers in
Don DeLillo's Falling Man
3. Losing Their Religion: Enforced Secularization in John Updike's
Terrorist
4. Not Exceptional Enough: The Occlusion of Muslims and the Quran in Amy
Waldman's The Submission
Conclusion: The Ultimate End, and the Limits of the Post-9/11 Great
American Novel
Bibliography
Index