Literature and the War on Terror: Nation, Democracy and Liberalisation

This book explores the cultural imaginations post 9/11, focusing on the role of literature, film, music, television shows, and other cultural forms in opening up spaces for complex reflections on identities and cultures. It also probes the intersections of religion, popular media, televised simulacrum, and digital martyrdom in the wake of 9/11, reclaiming and reinterpreting the alternative to a Eurocentric/Americentric understanding of cultural and geopolitical structures.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 14 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the examination of cultural imaginations post-9/11, exploring the concept of a religious community and its diverse representations in literature and popular culture. The essays within the volume center on the role of literature, film, music, television shows, and other cultural forms in creating spaces for profound reflections on identities and cultures, enabling us to reexamine the trauma of familiarity, post-traumatic heterotopias, religious extremism, and the notion of the "neighbor" in the post-9/11 literary and cultural imagination. Furthermore, the volume investigates the intersections of religion, popular media, televised simulacrum, and digital martyrdom in the aftermath of 9/11. It also delves into the simulation of new-age media images with reference to the creation and dissemination of "martyrs," the languages of grief, religionization of terrorism, Islamophobia, religious stereotypes, and the reading of comics in writing the terror.

A crucial and groundbreaking work, this book reclaims and reinterprets alternative perspectives on cultural and geopolitical structures of global designs. It holds immense interest for researchers in literature and cultural studies, media studies, politics, film studies, and South Asian studies.

Weight: 600g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032348544