When everything is about 9/11 : on reading contemporary fiction through 9/11 and the boundaries of the 9/11 novel
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26482789%3A_____%2F24%3A10152750" target="_blank" >RIV/26482789:_____/24:10152750 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.phil.muni.cz/bse/article/view/40073" target="_blank" >https://journals.phil.muni.cz/bse/article/view/40073</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2024-1-8" target="_blank" >10.5817/BSE2024-1-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
When everything is about 9/11 : on reading contemporary fiction through 9/11 and the boundaries of the 9/11 novel
Original language description
This article examines the boundaries of the term 9/11 novel by exploring what we truly mean when we say a novel is about 9/11 and what are the issues in reading general twenty-first-century literature through 9/11. By taking a thorough look at 9/11 literary scholarship, I argue that the issue of defining the 9/11 novel has been largely overlooked; consequently, the label 9/11 has often been stamped too easily on twenty-first-century fiction. In the aim to establish the boundaries of 9/11 fiction, I compare the thematic, temporal, and spatial features of some of the most iconic 9/11 novels to two works which have been commonly read as 9/11 novels even though they do not explicitly discuss the attacks, Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. By building on this discussion, I offer a concise definition of what a 9/11 novel is and where 9/11 ends.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Brno Studies in English
ISSN
0524-6881
e-ISSN
1805-0867
Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
137-153
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85217665777