EAN: | 9783319642086 |
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Auflage: | 001 |
Sachgruppe: | Pädagogik Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 400 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Herausgeber: | Frank, Svenja |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 21.12.2017 |
Untertitel: | Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed |
Schlagworte: | 11. September 2001 Europa Linguistik Literaturtheorie Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft |
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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.