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9/11 in European Literature : Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed, Paperback / softback Book

9/11 in European Literature : Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed Paperback / softback

Edited by Svenja Frank

Paperback / softback

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This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature.

In the face of inner-European divisions the texts under consideration take the terror attacks as a starting point to negotiate European as well as national identity.

While the volume shows that these identity formations are frequently based on the construction of two Others-the US nation and a cultural-ethnic idea of Muslim communities-it also analyses examples which undermine such constructions.

This much more self-critical strand in European literature unveils the Eurocentrism of a supposedly general humanistic value system through the use of complex aesthetic strategies.

These strategies are in itself characteristic of the European reception as the Anglo-Irish, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Polish perspectives collected in this volume perceive of the terror attacks through the lens of continental media and semiotic theory.

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