Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Arin Keeble is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University in 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.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: From Traumatic Rupture to Systemic Crisis in the Twenty-First Century Novel of Terrorism1. Revisiting the Anglophone 9/11 Novel: Domesticity, Metafiction and Exceptionalism2. Writing the 'Clash of Civilizations’: Racism, Difference and Terrorism3. The Novel of Terrorism and the War on Terror4. Contemporary Historical Novels of Terrorism5. Genre, Policing and TerrorismConclusion: New Event-Based Narratives of TerrorismIndex

Looking beyond the exceptionalism of 9/11, Keeble's theoretical interventions and meticulous close readings offer compelling contexts of trauma and structural violence demonstrating how terror gets framed between and across social and cultural institutions of government, media and industry.