Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Approaches
- Part III Themes
- 11 Convergence
- 12 Dissolution
- 13 Immobility
- 14 Insecurity
- Further Reading
- Index
14 - Insecurity
from Part III - Themes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forms
- Part II Approaches
- Part III Themes
- 11 Convergence
- 12 Dissolution
- 13 Immobility
- 14 Insecurity
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Hamilton Carroll considers shifting trends across nearly two decades of post-9/11 novels from early works grappling with the unrepresentability of terror to recent narratives by Susan Choi, Mohsin Hamid, Joseph O’Neill, and Jess Walter that depict the everyday experiences of racialized precarity in a period of perpetual warfare, nuclear proliferation, migration catastrophes, and neo-ethnonationalisms. Political turmoil and violence by state and non-state entities remain central to twenty-first century life, even as the events of September 11, 2001, have shifted from recent trauma to historical retrospection.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction , pp. 271 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021