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"This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the possibility of terror -- whether state or non-state, external or homegrown -- shadows Utopian imaginings. Terror and Utopia are linked in fiction through the exploration of the commodification of affect, a phenomenon of a globalized world in which feelings are managed, homogenized across cultures, exaggerated, or expunged according to a dominant model. Narrative approaches to the terrorist offer a means to investigate the ways in which fiction can resist commodification of affect, and maintain a reasoned but imaginative vision of possibilities for human community. Newman explores topics such as the first American bestseller with a Muslim protagonist, the links between writer and terrorist, the work of Iranian-Jewish Americans, and the relation of race and religion to Utopian thought." -- Publisher's description.

Double appartenance (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature --- Dys-utopies dans la littérature --- Dystopias in literature --- Dysutopieën in de literatuur --- Fantaisie dans la littérature --- Fantasie in de literatuur --- Fantasy in literature --- Littératures transnationales --- Migration internationale dans la littérature --- Migration transnationale dans la littérature --- Réseaux sociaux transnationaux dans la littérature --- Terreur dans la littérature --- Terreur in de literatuur --- Terror in literature --- Trans-migration dans la littérature --- Transnationalism in literature --- Transnationalisme dans la littérature --- Transnationalisme in de literatuur --- Utopias in literature --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Utopieën in de literatuur --- American fiction --- History and criticism --- Utopias in literature. --- Dystopias in literature. --- Terror in literature. --- Fantasy in literature. --- Transnationalism in literature. --- Utopische literatuur. --- Dystopie. --- Terrorisme. --- Amerikaans. --- Bellettrie. --- American fiction. --- Dystopias. --- Fantasy. --- Literature. --- Terror. --- Transnationalism. --- Utopias. --- History and criticism. --- 2000-2099. --- 21st century --- Edwards, Kim --- Choi, Susan --- Dubus, Andre --- Sofer, Dalia --- Updike, John --- Evaristo, Bernardine --- Divakaruni, Chitra --- Utopies littéraires. --- Terreur --- Fantaisie --- Littérature américaine --- Transnationalisme --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism --- American literature --- Utopian literature