Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts

Peter Childs (Editor), Professor Claire Colebrook (Editor), Sebastian Groes (Editor), Roberta Garrett, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Emily Horton, Kristine Miller, Jago Morrison, Ana-Karina Schneider, Corina Selejan, Claire Colebrook (Editor), Karin Sellberg, Heather Yeung, and Noraini MD Yusof

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9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed "clash of civilizations," and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no date, since Virginia Woolf declared that "on or about December 1910 human character changed," has marked such a singular point in the perception of time, identity and nature. Women's writing has always been something of a counter-canon, offering modes of voice and point of view beyond that of the "man" of reason. This collection of essays explores the two problems of what it means to write as a woman and what it means to write in the twenty-first century.
  • ISBN10 149850096X
  • ISBN13 9781498500968
  • Publish Date 21 October 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lexington Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 238
  • Language English