Topologies of Fear in Contemporary Fiction: The Anxieties of Post-Nationalism and Counter Terrorism

by Scott McClintock

Overview

The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on terrorism in literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137478900
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/22/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	223
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Scott McClink is an Associate Professor of Arts and Humanities at National University in California, USA. His previous publications include chapters in books such as Hemingway, Cuba and the Cuban Works (Kent State UP, 2014), Pynchon's California (co-editor, University of Iowa Press, 2014) and articles in journals including Comparative Literature Studies, South Asian Review and Clio: A Journal of Philosophy and History.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Geography of Anger and the Diaspora of Terrorism
2. Guantánamo Confidential: Inscription of the Subject In Literature and Law, and Detainees as Legal Non-Persons at Camp X-Ray
3. Travels Outside the Empire: The Revision of Subaltern Historiography in Amitav Ghosh
4. Images for a Godless World: Violence After the Sacred in the Millennial Indian Novel
5. The Sublime Object of Terror in Thomas Pynchon
6. Looking Backward at Joseph McElroy ' 's Lookout Cartridge: Mining Neural Neighborhoods and Social Networks in Postmodern Fiction
Conclusion: Four Covering Principles for the Time of Terrorism
Works Cited
Index