British and American Representations of 911 by Oana-Celia Gheorghiu

Author:Oana-Celia Gheorghiu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Anti-Americanism as Neorealism in Iain Banks’s Dead Air

In many respects, Iain Banks’s 9/11 novel , Dead Air, provides the most striking xenophobic stances in the entire corpus selected, which, at least in consideration of all the (more or less) recent theories of the novel that draw a clear demarcation line between author and creation, should not be projected onto the novelist but strictly confined to the area of fiction . However, in light of the countless unequivocal statements Banks made in the press, one can hardly separate the authorial voice from the fictional one of the narrator-protagonist in his case. As his obituary reads:Always a man of the left, Banks was animated by political causes and his pronouncements began to attract journalistic attention. The Iraq war made him a loud critic of Tony Blair . The impress of his political views was increasingly evident in his fiction and it seemed to some of his admirers that they were exerting too strong an influence. Dead Air (2002) featured a narrator , Ken Nott, whose views seem little distanced from his author’s and who is licensed to berate the reader about political morality, American imperialism , the Royal family and the like. (The Guardian, 9 June 2013)

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