Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

Fiona Tolan is a Senior Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University. She specialises in contemporary British and Canadian writing, and is author of Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.Stephen Morton is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He is currently completing ‘Colonial States of Emergency’ for Liverpool University Press, and has published articles in Textual Practice, Wasafiri, Public Culture, New Formations, Ariel, and Interventions.Anastasia Valassopoulos is Lecturer in World Literature at the University of Manchester. Her main area of research is the postcolonial literature and culture of the Middle East and North Africa. She is also interested in the wider cultural production and reception of Arab women’s film and music. She is the author of Contemporary Arab Women Writers (Routledge, 2007) and has published work in Research in African Literatures and Critical Survey as well as numerous edited collections.Robert Spencer is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Postcolonial Culture at the University of Manchester. His main research interests are in postcolonial fiction and poetry (especially African and Irish writing). He is the author of Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature (forthcoming, Palgrave) and has published work in Interventions, New Formations, Postcolonial Studies and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, as well as several edited collections.

• 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 Benaïssa’s The Last Night of a Damned Soul 14. Paranoia in Spook Country: William Gibson and the technological sublime of the war on terror

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