British and American Representations of 9/11 - Literature, Politics and the Media

This book argues that twenty-first-century neorealist fiction is inspired by political and journalistic discourses and, along with them, constitutes one of the many representations of the attacks on September 11 and their outcomes. Adopting a neorealist stance, this book is placed at the intersection of realism and fiction, with often reference to what is perceived as objective writing (media and political texts), not at all so divorced from the practice of literary writings on the event that shook the world on September 11, 2001.


Oana-Celia Gheorghiu is a Senior Lecturer at 'Dun?rea de Jos' University of Galati, Romania. She published papers and books on representations of femininity from Shakespeare to postmodernity before settling to the relation between world politics and contemporary literature. She is also a translation theorist and practitioner, having published more than fifteen translations of British and American fiction and non-fiction books into Romanian. She was awarded an M.A. in Translation Studies in 2013 and a PhD in British and American Literature in 2016. She teaches British Culture and Civilisation, Contemporary English Language and Theory and Practice of Translation.