'Post'-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Uncanny Terror and the ‘Post’-9/11

   • Pei-chen Liao

   Pages 1-22

3. The Uncanny Violence of Strangers: Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown

   • Pei-chen Liao

   Pages 23-52

4. Crossing the Borders of the Body Politic after 9/11: The Virus Metaphor and Autoimmunity in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission

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   Pages 53-84

5. Home-land Insecurity: Unhomely Homes in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

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   Pages 85-122

6. The Post-9/11 ‘Return Home’ Novel: Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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   Pages 123-153

7. Conclusion: The Precarious Life of the Other

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   Pages 154-158

8. Back Matter

   Pages 159-191

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While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of what might be meant by "post" -9/11 by exploring the themes of uncanny terror through a close reading of four "post" -9/11 South Asian diasporic fictions.

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• America
• Close reading
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• British and Irish Literature

• National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

  Pei-chen Liao

PEI-CHEN LIAO is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Her research interests include contemporary British fiction, South Asian diasporic fiction, post-9/11 fiction, postcolonialism and globalization studies. She is currently working on a project regarding contemporary South Asian diasporic 'return home' novels.

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