Globalization and Discourse on Terror: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as post 9/11 Fiction.
The study analyzes Hari Kunzru's (b. 1969) novel Transmission (2004) as a post 9/11 text. Although there are no direct references to the events of 9/11, the novel is analogous to the counter-discourses against post 9/11 popular discourses on terror. The theoretical framework of the study is based on...
| Published in: | Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities (1994-7046) Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 123 - 143 |
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