Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11

Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace. Analyzing transatlantic literature and culture, the book refocuses our view of Ground Zero through the lenses of imperial power and cosmopolitan exchange.

Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11 asks whether post-9/11 America has chosen the 'wrong side of paradise' by waging war on terror rather than working for global peace. Analyzing transatlantic literature and culture, the book refocuses our view of Ground Zero through the lenses of imperial power and cosmopolitan exchange.

Introduction: Kristine Miller, 'The Wrong Side of Paradise: American Exceptionalism and the Post-9/11 Special Relationship' PART I: EMPIRE 1. Phyllis Lassner, 'Paradoxical Polemics: John le Carré's Responses to 9/11' 2. Jim Leach, 'The (Inter)national Bond: James Bond and the 'Special Relationship'' 3. Brian McCuskey, '221B-9/11: Sherlock Holmes and Conspiracy Theory' PART II: COSMOPOLIS 4. Lynda Ng, 'Behind the Face of Terror: Hamid, Malkani, and Multiculturalism After 9/11' 5. M. Neelika Jayawardane, ''Scandalous Memoir': Uncovering Silences and Reclaiming the 'Disappeared' in Mahvish Rukhsana Khan's My Guantánamo Diary' 6. Matthew Brown, 'Joseph O'Neill and the Post-9/11 Novel' 7. Laura Frost, 'An Interview with Joseph O'Neill' PART III: CITY 8. Lesley Broder, '9/11 Theater: The Story of New York or the Nation?' 9. Graley Herren, 'Flying Man and Falling Man: Remembering and Forgetting 9/11' 10. Crystal Alberts, ''I'm Only Just Starting to Look': Media, Art, and Literature after 9/11' 11. Laura Frost, 'Archifictions: Constructing September 11' 12. Anthony Flinn, 'The New Grotesque in Jess Walter's The Zero: A Commentary and Interview' Bibliography Index