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dc.contributor.creatorFlannery, Eoin
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-13T11:48:40Z
dc.date.available2018-03-13T11:48:40Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationEóin Flannery; INTERNATIONALIZING 9/11: HOPE AND REDEMPTION IN NADEEM ASLAM'S THE WASTED VIGIL (2008) AND COLUM McCANN'S LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN (2009), English: Journal of the English Association, Volume 62, Issue 238, 1 September 2013, Pages 294–315en_US
dc.identifier.issn0013-8215
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10395/2168
dc.description.abstractIn a recent literary critical survey, Catherine Morley notes a suite of trends in 9/11 fiction: ‘While many of the initial reactions to the events of 11th September were notable for their uniquely subjective emphasis, with writers discussing what the attacks meant to them, to their art and to their writing, what many writers have also been integrating into their fiction has been the American response to the attacks.’ The current discussion strives to depart from domestic, subjective reactions to 9/11 in literary fiction and essay the work of two international novelists: the Pakistaniborn Nadeem Aslam and the Irish-born Colum McCann. Respectively, their novels, The Wasted Vigil (2008) and the National Book Award winning Let the Great World Spin (2009), deal with 9/11 in elliptical ways, as neither is set in the direct post-9/11 period in the United States. Respectively, Aslam and McCann provide allochronic narrative responses to the terroristic outrages and, by implication, to the impassioned subsequent reactions and repercussions. In displacing 9/11, both authors allow geographical and historical breathing space in which to reflect upon the motivations, personal tragedies, and the implications of the events. These novels prompt the question: where can we divine non-American and noncontemporary moments of hope and despair?en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherOxford Academicen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEnglish: Journal of the English Association;
dc.subject9/11, literary fiction, Colum McCann, Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil, Let the Great World Spinen_US
dc.titleInternationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Nadeem Aslam’s "The Wasted Vigil" (2008) and Colum McCann’s "Let the Great World Spin" (2009)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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