Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City

Even though Teju Cole’s debut novel, Open City, has often been analyzed within the spectrum of themes such as racialization and ethnicity, its relevance in the post-9/11 canon is worthy of attention. As such, this contribution seeks to examine the salience of September 11 and the role of the protago...

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Autor: Melodia Festa, Beatrice
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/56984
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/56984
https://dx.doi.org/10.37536/reden.2022.4.1678
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Flaneur
Mourning
Collective memory
Memorialization
Post 9/11 novel
Historia
Antropología
Literatura
History
Anthropology
Literature
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title Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City
spellingShingle Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City
Melodia Festa, Beatrice
Flaneur
Mourning
Collective memory
Memorialization
Post 9/11 novel
Historia
Antropología
Literatura
History
Anthropology
Literature
title_short Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City
title_full Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City
title_fullStr Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City
title_full_unstemmed Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City
title_sort Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City
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Mourning
Collective memory
Memorialization
Post 9/11 novel
Historia
Antropología
Literatura
History
Anthropology
Literature
topic Flaneur
Mourning
Collective memory
Memorialization
Post 9/11 novel
Historia
Antropología
Literatura
History
Anthropology
Literature
description Even though Teju Cole’s debut novel, Open City, has often been analyzed within the spectrum of themes such as racialization and ethnicity, its relevance in the post-9/11 canon is worthy of attention. As such, this contribution seeks to examine the salience of September 11 and the role of the protagonist, as post-9/11 flâneur, considering how Cole’s novel reframes the political and transnational implications of 9/11 drawing from flânerie to offer a wider viewpoint on the national and interracial implications of the attacks. As the article aims to show, the narrative adopts flânerie as a strategy to ponder on the post-9/11 phenomenon memorializing the attacks in New York and consequently reterritorializing terrorism in Brussels to engage in an international perspective. Aligning with the contention that post-9/11 narratives have been concerned with revising the city as the origin of a discussion on the attacks, the essay aims to show how Cole leans toward a universalist view of the event so that the novel engages with the transcontinental impact of 9/11. This article's ultimate intent is to consider the flâneur as the thread that guides to a broader challenging discussion on the significance of 9/11 respatializing the consequences of the terrorist attacks beyond the United States.
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