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After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, terrorism as a literary theme has flourished in Australian literature. This book examines how terrorism as a theme has been represented in five exemplary novels and elaborates a distinctively Australian approach to the topic. The novels taken into consideration focus on strategies of fictionalisation rather than the actual violence or the threat of it. By doing so, the author argues, Australian literature provides a powerful antidote to the widespread fear of a terrorist attack. Without competing with media and political sciences, this book underlines the contribution literary studies can make to the expanding field of terrorism research.

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Contents: Terrorism – Literature – Post-9/11 Fiction – Terrorism Discourse – Australian Fiction – Janette Turner Hospital – Due Preparations for the Plague – Orpheus Lost – Adib Khan – Spiral Road – Richard Flanagan – The Unknown Terrorist – Andrew McGahan – Underground.

Telling Terror in Contemporary Australian Fiction

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      Publisher Peter Lang AG
      Published 19 May 2016
      ISBN-13 9783631673164
      978-3631673164
      ISBN-10 3631673167

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, terrorism as a literary theme has flourished in Australian literature. This book examines how terrorism as a theme has been represented in five exemplary novels and elaborates a distinctively Australian approach to the topic. The novels taken into consideration focus on strategies of fictionalisation rather than the actual violence or the threat of it. By doing so, the author argues, Australian literature provides a powerful antidote to the widespread fear of a terrorist attack. Without competing with media and political sciences, this book underlines the contribution literary studies can make to the expanding field of terrorism research.

      Table of Contents
      Contents: Terrorism – Literature – Post-9/11 Fiction – Terrorism Discourse – Australian Fiction – Janette Turner Hospital – Due Preparations for the Plague – Orpheus Lost – Adib Khan – Spiral Road – Richard Flanagan – The Unknown Terrorist – Andrew McGahan – Underground.

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