Sarah O'Brien

Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" (eBook, ePUB)

Disrupting Memory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how transnational fiction can intervene in discourse surrounding the 'war on terror' to advocate for marginalised perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000386424
• Artikelnr.: 61376628

Autorenporträt

Sarah O'Brien (PhD) completed her doctoral work at Maynooth University, Ireland, in 2019. Her research areas relate to trauma, memory, south Asian fictions of the "war on terror," and postcolonial and world literatures more broadly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Translating Trauma in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
Chapter Two: Shared Graves: Empire and Trauma in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted
Vigil
Chapter Three: Haunted Communities: Tracing the Ghosts of the 'war on
terror' in Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden
Chapter Four: Spectres of Empire in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows
Conclusion