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Ideological battlegrounds- constructions of us and them before and after 9/11. Volume 1, Perspectives in literatures and cultures

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""The effects of 9/11 ramify through a network of conduits and pathways, including the examples of expressive culture this volume explores; and the registration of those effects will likewise be felt in an array of documents and texts. The cultural, literary, and mass mediated effects of 9/11 encompass the globe and the chapters in this volume assume a transnational and international range of vantage points. The topics examined include the representation of Islam and Moslems in a number of te...

Title Ideological battlegrounds- constructions of us and them before and after 9/11. Volume 1, Perspectives in literatures and cultures / edited by Joanna Witkowska and Uwe Zagratzki.
Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Creation Date 2014
Notes Includes index.
English
Content TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE ISLAMIZATION OF ISLAM
IDEOLOGY, AUTHENTICITY, AND RECEPTION IN WORLD TRADE CENTER
INFIDELS AND MARTYRS
"DIFFICULT TOPICS SUCH AS POLITICS, DISCRIMINATION, ATTACKS AND SO ON"
MICHAEL CHABON'S THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION AS A 9/11 NOVEL
THE AMBIGUITY OF THE "OTHER" IN THE POST-9/11 NOVELS THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (2007)
US AND THEM IN TERRY PRATCHETT'S PRE- AND POST-9/11 DISCWORLD NOVELS
"TERRORISTS WIN"
CRITICISM OF AMERICA IN JAMES KELMAN'S NOVEL YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
A PERPETUAL CRISIS?
FROM "INFREQUENT SHOCK TO [...] MAIN THREAD OF THE PLOT"FILM REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MUSLIM IN AMERICAN 9/11 MOVIES
"ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF MEANING"
GEORGE ORWELL'S COLONIAL OTHER
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Extent 1 online resource (267 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997011504868805171
MARC RECORDS

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