Representation and Excess: Is the Figure of the Terrorist in 9/11 Fiction a "Blind Spot" (Agamben) in Representation?

Sylvie Mathé (1)

1 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone

This essay examines the problematic issue of the representation of terrorists in relation to the literature of 9/11 in the Anglo-American world in order to investigate why "the leap into the terrorist mind appears too great for most authors."

Mots clés: 9/11; representation of terrorists; Agamben; the Other

Domaines: Littératures

Sylvie Mathé. Representation and Excess: Is the Figure of the Terrorist in 9/11 Fiction a "Blind Spot" (Agamben) in Representation?. Mounir Guirat. Excess(es), 2016. ⟨hal-01415999⟩