Sheheryar Sheikh

The Post-9/11 Great American Novel

Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 240 Seiten
EAN 9798765134405
Veröffentlicht 13. November 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic
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Beschreibung

A study of the confluences between liberal white Americans' trauma, their reverting to hyper-conservative Islamophobia, and Don DeLillo's call to American authors that they compose a new so-called 'Great American Novel' pluriverse in the wake of 9/11.

Portrait

Sheheryar B. Sheikh is Assistant Professor and Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, Canada, where he teaches creative writing. He has published two novels with HarperCollins India, The Still Point of the Turning World (2017) and Call Me Al: The Hero's Ha-Ha Journey (2019), both of which have been finalists for the All-Pakistan Getz Pharma prize.