‘The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia’
Talk by Dr Sheheryar B. Sheikh (Dalhousie University)
Friday 8 May, 1-2.30 (CLIVEG A31, University Park, University of Nottingham and on Teams)
The long shadow of 9/11’s falling towers looms still over world events. The War on Terror rhetoric is now built into the framework of how the United States approaches Muslims and Islam across the world. Policy and literary discourse are not separate entities, and in this talk, Dr Sheheryar B. Sheikh, Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University in Canada and author of the novels The Still Point of the Turning World (2017) and Call Me Al (2019), will show the ramifications of early and contemporary post-9/11 literature’s contribution to the perpetuation of White American trauma and Islamophobia in the psyche of a nation that has become drunk on its power and belligerence.
The talk will be chaired by Dr Ruth Maxey (American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham) and followed by a Q&A discussion.
Everyone welcome!
