![]() ![]() This article aims to examine the role of contemporary Pakistani Anglophone fiction as a valuable counter-narrative to dominant 9/11 writings in the West, and traces its engagement with the effects of the ensuing ‘War on Terror’. This surge in Pakistani writings in English has coincided with a renewed interest in the intersections between literature and human rights, especially in the current period of global tension. The decade following the events of 9/11 has witnessed a new wave of Pakistani English writers who have attained wide international acclaim. Ultimately, this thesis shows that the discourse of social actors, within the case studies, explores the notions of reconciling power between those who are governed and those who govern them. This research demonstrates that the collection of protesters' data remains a divisive topic as it challenges the fundamental rights of individuals to privacy contrasted with the need of authorities to ensure the security of public order. Drawing upon, first a conceptual framework incorporating political and social concepts of governance, surveillance and data collection and, second, an empirical study, through the use of discourse analysis, this thesis explores the commonalities and differences that public actors express in their discourse surrounding the notion of "fichage" (Government database) as a feature of protest control. Using the Yellow Vests movement in France as backdrop, this research examines two case studies of public discourse detailing events of surveillance and data collection in protests. © 2012 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. Challenging the rhetoric of the war on terror, the book honors the capacity of literature to articulate ambiguous forms of resistance in ways that reconfigure the imperatives and responsibilities of narrative for the twenty-first century. Through a broad historical and cultural lens, Plotting Justice reveals links between the narrative ethics of post-9/11 fiction and events preceding and following the terrorist attacks-events that defined the last half of the twentieth century, from the Holocaust to the Balkan War, and those that 9/11 precipitated, from war in Afghanistan to the Abu Ghraib scandal. Their work illustrates how post-9/11 literature expresses an ethics of equivocation-in formal elements of narrative, in a complex scrutiny of justice, and in tense dialogues linking this fiction with the larger political landscape of the era. Don DeLillo, Pat Barker, Aleksandar Hemon, Lorraine Adams, Michael Cunningham, and Patrick McGrath are among the authors Georgiana Banita considers. Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 shifted the moral coordinates of contemporary fiction? And how might such a shift, reflected in narrative strategies and forms, relate to other themes and trends emerging with the globalization of literature? This book pursues these questions through works written in the wake of 9/11 and examines the complex intersection of ethics and narrative that has defined a significant portion of British and American fiction over the past decade. ![]()
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