Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror' (Paperback)

Foreword  Part 1: Migration and Terrorism  1. Introduction  2. Salman Rushdie and the “war on terror”  3. Migrating from terror: The postcolonial novel after September 11  4. E-terror: Computer viruses, class and transnationalism in Transmission and One Night @ the Call Center  5. Anarchism, anti-imperialism and “The Doctrine of Dynamite”  6. Towards a critique of colonial violence: Fanon, Gandhi and the restoration of agency  Part 2: Literary Responses to the War on Terror  7. Introduction  8. Moving through America: Race, place and resistance in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist  9. Another Black September? Palestinian writing after 9/11  10. “Why I am writing from where you are not”: Absence and presence in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close  11. 9/11, image control, and the graphic narrative: Spiegelman, Rehr, Torres  12. Ghosts of Gotham: 9/11 mourning in Patrick McGrath’s Ghost Town and Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days  13. Jihad as rite of passage: Tahar Djaout’s The Last Summer of Reason and Slimane Benaissa’s The Last Night of a Damned Soul  14. Paranoia in Spook Country: William Gibson and the technological sublime of the war on terror