Book Launch with Sheheryar B. Sheikh
Sheikh (PhD’23) is the author of The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 4
Time: 4:30–6:30 pm
Location: Link Gallery and Room 154, Murray Library, 3 Campus Dr., Saskatoon
Schedule: 4:30 pm – Reception with refreshments | 5 pm – Program | 5:50 pm – Book signing, reception continues
Free and open to the public
About this event
An author talk and reading of The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia, a new book by USask graduate Dr. Sheheryar B. Sheikh (PhD).
Sheikh will be in conversation with Dr. Lindsey Banco (PhD), professor in the Department of English.
Sheheryar B. Sheikh is a Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, Canada. He has published two novels with HarperCollins India, The Still Point of the Turning World (2017) and Call Me Al: The Hero’s Ha-Ha Journey (2019), both of which have been finalists for the All-Pakistan Getz Pharma prize. He is also the author of The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). A study of the confluences between liberal white Americans' trauma, their reverting to hyper-conservative Islamophobia, and Don DeLillo's call to American authors that they compose a new so-called 'Great American Novel' pluriverse in the wake of 9/11.
A Department of English / MFA in Writing Program event
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