Framing Freedoms and Identity: Fictional Responses to the 9/11 Attacks (Ian McEwan's Saturday)
Framing Freedoms and Identity: Fictional Responses to the 9/11 Attacks (Ian McEwan's Saturday)
Author(s): Alina Stan, Alina GalbeazaSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitară & ADI Publication
Keywords: violence; anti-terrorist measures; human rights; person; role and social identities; civil liberties
Summary/Abstract: This article starts with defining some of the long-term implications of the 9/11 attacks on policies in the field of human rights by taking into account a few important elements such as: moral categories of violence, the legitimacy of state measures to fight terrorism and aggression, which may imply the invention and use of ambiguous acts like the temporary suspension of human rights and the increasing interference of the state in personal liberties. The second part of the essay discusses the ways in which the symbiosis between violence and the state measures are fictionally illustrated by Ian McEwan in his novel Saturday (2005).
Journal: International Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies and Environmental Communication
- Issue Year: 2/2013
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 79-95
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
