The 9/11 Novel: Trauma, Politics and Identity
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1109993
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- McFarland & Company, Inc.
- ISBN
- 9780786478347
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph, the first dedicated study of ‘the 9/11 novel’, covers nine instances of this key twenty-first century genre in their political, social and cultural contexts. It goes beyond the polarized debates that emerged around the perceived insularity of these novels, to identify fundamental ‘conflictedness’ that has evolved but not disappeared as this body of work has grown. It discusses key phases in this evolution: early experimentation that conspicuously signalled the struggle to find an appropriate mode of representation; the cycle of domestic fictions that focussed on trauma and victimhood; and a series of more overtly political iterations that followed.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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