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Narrating 9/11

Name: Narrating 9/11
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421417387
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Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism

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Edited by John N. Duvall, Robert P. Marzec
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 336

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Narrating 9/11 challenges the notion that Americans have overcome the national trauma of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The volume responds to issues of war, surveillance, and the expanding security state, including the Bush Administration's policies on pre-emptive war, extraordinary rendition, torture abroad, and the suspension of privacy rights and civil liberties at home.Building on the work of Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj iek, and Donald Pease, the contributors focus on the ways in which post-9/11 narratives help make visible the fantasies that attempt to justify the ongoing state of exception and American exceptionalism. Narrating 9/11 examines a variety of contemporary narratives as they relate to the cultural construction of the neoliberal nation-state, a role that mediates the possibilities of ethnic and religious identity as well as the ability to imagine terrorism. Touching on some of the mainstays of 9/11 fiction, including Jonathan Safran Foers Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and John Updikes Terrorist, the book expands this particular canon by considering the work of such writers as Jess Walter, William Gibson, Lauren Groff, Ken Kalfus, Ian McEwan, Philip Roth, John le Carré, Laila Halaby, Michael Chabon, and Jarett Kobek. Narrating 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.

Introduction. 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 Post9/11 America: Updike's Terrorist, Islam, and the Specter of Exceptionalism 217
anna hartnell
fantasies of terrorism
10 Representing the Enemy Other: Jarett Kobek's ATTA, Postmodern Narrative, and the Architectural Unconscious 245
john n. duvall
11 Policing the Globe: State Sovereignty and the International in the Post9/11 Crime Novel 263
andrew pepper
12 Outtakes and Outrage: The Means and Ends of Suicide Terror 284
samuel thomas
Afterword: Fantasy-Work in the Post9/11 Sphere 309
donald e. pease
List of Contributors 313
Index 317
vi Contents

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