Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism
Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the 9/11 novel genre, the book moves through more recent depictions of the endless ‘war on terror’, state terror, white nationalist terror and historical narratives of terror that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sense of both the reasons why terrorism occurs and the effects it has on victims, survivors and international and intercultural relations.
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Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism
Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the 9/11 novel genre, the book moves through more recent depictions of the endless ‘war on terror’, state terror, white nationalist terror and historical narratives of terror that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sense of both the reasons why terrorism occurs and the effects it has on victims, survivors and international and intercultural relations.
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Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

by Arin Keeble
Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

by Arin Keeble

Overview

Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the 9/11 novel genre, the book moves through more recent depictions of the endless ‘war on terror’, state terror, white nationalist terror and historical narratives of terror that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sense of both the reasons why terrorism occurs and the effects it has on victims, survivors and international and intercultural relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474478687
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 01/01/2026
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Arin Keeble is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier Universityin Scotland. His research interests include the literary and cultural representation of terrorism, crisis, neoliberalism and systemic violence. He is co-editor of Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (2023) and is the author of Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context (2019), and his writing appears in journals such as Critique, Journal of American Studies, Post45, Parallax, Punk and Post-Punk, and TLS.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From Traumatic Rupture to Systemic Crisis in the Twenty-First Century Novel of Terrorism

1. Revisiting the Anglophone 9/11 Novel: Domesticity, Metafiction and Exceptionalism

2. Writing the 'Clash of Civilizations’: Racism, Difference and Terrorism

3. The Novel of Terrorism and the War on Terror

4. Contemporary Historical Novels of Terrorism

5. Genre, Policing and Terrorism

Conclusion: New Event-Based Narratives of Terrorism

Index

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