The Post-9/11 City in Novels : Literary Remappings of New York and London

"Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement. It also suggests a need for remapping the real and imagined spaces where we live and work. Through close readings of novels from both sides of the Atlantic, this analysis of the literary 21st century metropolis explores the fictional post-9/11 city as a global space not defined or contained by its physical limits."-- Preface -- Introduction: Reactions to 9/11 in American and British city novels -- Part One: New York. I: "Re-mapping New York City in Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely loud and incredibly close"--II: Metropolis as source of literary energy: Teju Cole's "Open city"--III: The ambiguity of the other in Mohsin Hamid's "The reluctant fundamentalist" and H.M. Naqvi's "Home Boy" -- IV: The plurality of voices and urban paths in Amy Waldman's "The Submission: the metaphors of submission" -- Part Two: London. V: Unpredictable and insane: London as a body, London as brain -- Hemisphere 1: London East End -- Hemisphere 2: London West End in Ian McEwan's "Saturday" -- Part Three: New York vs. London: Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland" -- Conclusion Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001 attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behaviour patterns to architecture and urban movement. Through close readings of novels from both sides of the Atlantic, this analysis of the literary 21st century metropolis explores the fictional post-9/11 city as a global space not defined or contained by its physical limits.