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9/11, Hyperreality, And The Global Body Politic: Frédéric Beigbeder’S Windows On The World, Jenn Brandt Jan 2015

9/11, Hyperreality, And The Global Body Politic: Frédéric Beigbeder’S Windows On The World, Jenn Brandt

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This essay argues that the success of Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World is due to Beigbeder's use of the seemingly contradictory genres of autofiction and hyperrealism in the depiction of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. By positioning himself in the text alongside his fictionalized American counterpoint, Beigbeder configures 9/11 as a lived-body experience that models the ways in which the post-9/11 subject was formed within specific political, cultural, and national conditions. The effect of the novel’s hyperrealism is such that Beigbeder simultaneously posits and deconstructs the notion of national identity within the greater contexts of postmodernism and …


Touria Khannous. African Pasts, Presents, And Futures. Generational Shifts In African Women’S Literature, Film, And Internet Discourse. Lanham: Lexington, 2013. Xxv + 203 Pp., Marzia Caporale Jan 2015

Touria Khannous. African Pasts, Presents, And Futures. Generational Shifts In African Women’S Literature, Film, And Internet Discourse. Lanham: Lexington, 2013. Xxv + 203 Pp., Marzia Caporale

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Touria Khannous. African Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Generational Shifts in African Women’s Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse. Lanham: Lexington, 2013. xxv + 203 pp.


Yehuda Jean-Bernard Moraly. L’Œuvre Impossible: Claudel, Genet, Fellini. Paris: Éditions Le Manuscrit, 2013. 207 Pp., Eric Touya De Marenne Jan 2015

Yehuda Jean-Bernard Moraly. L’Œuvre Impossible: Claudel, Genet, Fellini. Paris: Éditions Le Manuscrit, 2013. 207 Pp., Eric Touya De Marenne

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Yehuda Jean-Bernard Moraly. L’Œuvre impossible: Claudel, Genet, Fellini. Paris: Éditions le Manuscrit, 2013. 207 pp.


Maria Stehle. Ghetto Voices In Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes. Rochester: Camden House, 2012. 205 Pp., Gizem Arslan Jan 2015

Maria Stehle. Ghetto Voices In Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes. Rochester: Camden House, 2012. 205 Pp., Gizem Arslan

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Maria Stehle. Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes. Rochester: Camden House, 2012. 205 pp.


Leon Sachs. The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy In Twenty-First Century French Literature And Film. Lincoln/London: U Of Nebraska P, 2014. Xi + 227 Pp., Zachary R. Hagins Jan 2015

Leon Sachs. The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy In Twenty-First Century French Literature And Film. Lincoln/London: U Of Nebraska P, 2014. Xi + 227 Pp., Zachary R. Hagins

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Leon Sachs. The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First Century French Literature and Film. Lincoln/London: U of Nebraska P, 2014. xi + 227 pp.


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Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

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