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Book SynopsisHave the terrorist attacks of September 11 shifted the moral coordinates of contemporary fiction?
Trade Review"Part narrative theory, part ethical analysis, this book offers a well-written conceptual examination of the juncture between fiction and morality in the literature written in the wake of 9/11."—E. T. Mason,
CHOICE"Banita's book makes an important contribution to scholarship on post-9/11 literature."—Clemens Spahr,
NOVEL"With great breadth and power, Banita's
Plotting Justice will be of interest to scholars concerned with discussion of narrative ethics, but also to scholars interested in the specific narrative strategies and themes that emerge in post-9/11 fiction."—James Gifford,
The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: New Ethics, New Literatures, New Americas
1. Falling Man Fiction: DeLillo, Spiegelman, Schulman, and the Spectatorial Condition
2. Sex and Sense: McGrath, Tristram, and Psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib
3. Moral Crusades: Race, Risk, and Walt Whitman's Afterlives
4. The Internationalization of Conscience: Hemon, Barker, Balkanism
5. Reading for the Pattern: Narrative, Data Mining, and the Transnational Ethics of Surveillance
Conclusion: Postincendiary Circumstances
Notes
Bibliography
Index
