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Book SynopsisNarrating 9/11 pushes beyond a critical focus on domestic realism, offering chapters that examine speculative and genre fiction, postmodernism, climate change, and the evolving security state, as well as the television series Lost and the film Paradise Now.
Trade ReviewThis incisive collection is an urgent wake-up call. Choice The idea behind Narrating 9/11 is both fascinating and timely. Modern Philology
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Fantasies of 9/11 1 john n. duvall and robert p. marzec state and corporate fantasies 1 Zero Dark Democracy 17 timothy melley 2 Fictitious Capital: Historicizing the Present in William Gibson's "Bigend" Trilogy 40 hamilton carroll 3 Climate Change and the Evolution of the 9/11 Security State: The Fantasy of Adaptation and Ian McEwan's Solar 70 robert p. marzec 4 Nostalgia for the Future: Temporality and Exceptionalism in Twenty-First Century American Fiction 98 aaron derosa 5 Lost in Iraq 118 alan nadel fantasies of trauma, ethnicity, and religion 6 Regarding the Pain of Self and Other: Trauma Transfer and Narrative Framing in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 145 ilka saal 7 Strange Times to Be a Jew: Alternative History after 9/11 168 margaret scanlan 8 Arab American Citizenship in Crisis: Destabilizing Representations of Arabs and Muslims in the United States after 9/11 194 carol fadda-conrey 9 Violence and the Faithful in Post-9/11 America: Updike's Terrorist, Islam, and the Specter of Exceptionalism 217 anna hartnellfantasies of terrorism10 Representing the Enemy Other: Jarett Kobek's ATTA, Postmodern Narrative, and the Architectural Unconscious 245john n. duvall11 Policing the Globe: State Sovereignty and the International in the Post-9/11 Crime Novel 263andrew pepper12 Outtakes and Outrage: The Means and Ends of Suicide Terror 284samuel thomasAfterword: Fantasy-Work in the Post-9/11 Sphere 309donald e. peaseList of Contributors 313Index 317vi Contents
