Less 9/11 Is More 9/11: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and A Day a Night and a Day

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作者
Galindo, Alberto S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Whitman Coll, Whitman, MA 99362 USA
关键词
9/11/2001; post-9/11; fiction; Junot Diaz; Glen Duncan; Judith Butler; narrative practices;
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G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];
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摘要
This essay brings together the novels The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by the Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz and A Day and a Night and a Day by the British writer Glen Duncan as fictional texts that are influenced by the cultural weight of the events of 9/11/2001 without necessarily invoking them directly: 9/11 becomes an almost unspeakable moment. This essay hypothesizes that these novels can be read as part of the cultural production tied to 9/11, not because these novels are about 9/11 per se, but because they are conditioned by the political and cultural discursive practices after 9/11.
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页数:17
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