Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts
Contributions by Roberta Garrett Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies, The University of East, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Emily Horton, Kristine Miller, Jago Morrison, Ana-Karina Schneider, Corina Selejan, Karin Sellberg, Heather Yeung, Noraini Md Yusof Edited by Peter Childs, Claire Colebrook Edwin Erle Sparkes Professor of English, Penn State University, Sebastian Groes
Publication date:
21 October 2014Length of book:
234 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
239x160mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781498500951
9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed “clash of civilizations,” and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no date, since Virginia Woolf declared that “on or about December 1910 human character changed,” has marked such a singular point in the perception of time, identity and nature. Women’s writing has always been something of a counter-canon, offering modes of voice and point of view beyond that of the “man” of reason. This collection of essays explores the two problems of what it means to write as a woman and what it means to write in the twenty-first century.
This is a fascinating, wide-ranging, and intellectually stimulating over-view of a number of important contributions to post-9/11 fiction by women. The essays here cover many vital contemporary issues from Aesthetics, the Spectacle, Gender politics and the representation of Islamic experiences. The book offers provocative and radical readings of texts that have, often in subtle, oblique and symbolic ways responded to the tense, uncertain mood and atmosphere of the opening decade of the twenty-first century.