Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The “Other” In 9/11 Literature : If You See Something, Say Something [electronic resource]
- Auflage
- 1st ed. 2017
- Ort / Verlag
- Cham : Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
- Link zum Volltext
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Fiction’s First Responders -- Chapter 1. An American Breed: Wealthy White Protagonists -- Chapter 2. Fighting the Need to Be Normal: Terrorists and other Muslim Characters -- Chapter 3. You Want to Dance, I Want to Watch: African- American Characters -- Chapter 4. Off White Crayons: Ethnically Marked White Characters -- Conclusion: Flight From Innocence.
- This book breaks the assumption that the racial tension the in 9/11 novels lies solely in the dynamic between “Americans” and “terrorists.” It also interrogates post-9/11 constructions of whiteness and the treatment of African-American characters.
- Sprache
- –
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 3-319-50844-XDOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50844-3Titel-ID: 9925035391406463
- Format
- 1 online resource (IX, 129 p.)
- Schlagworte
- Literature, Modern—20th century, Literature, Modern—21st century, Contemporary Literature