'Think Fantastic' in post-9/11 New York City in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008)
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- Article
- Authors
- 박지은 / Jieun Park
- Source
- 현대영미어문학회 춘계학술대회 발표논문집. Jun 01, 2019 2019:18
- Subject
- Language
- Korean
English
This paper examines 2008 novel Netherland in which Joseph O’Neill investigates post-9/11 New York City by narrating a friendship of two foreign nomads; Hans and Chuck, and their friendship built on playing cricket with various nonwhite and hyphenated American players. By describing a burden of living as transported and transplanted immigrants and the tragic ending of Chuck who wished to “think fantastic” in the New World, O’Neill presents aftermath and the trauma of 9/11 and criticizes Bush administration’s USA Patriot Act invigorating American patriotism based on white supremacy.