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Plotting justice : narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 / Georgiana Banita.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banita, Georgiana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Ethics in literature.
- Psychoanalysis in literature.
- Social change in literature.
- Literature and morals.
- Literature and society--United States.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 shifted the moral coordinates of contemporary fiction? And how might such a shift, reflected in narrative strategies and forms, relate to other themes and trends emerging with the globalization of literature? This book pursues these questions through works written in the wake of 9/11 and examines the complex intersection of ethics and narrative that has defined a significant portion of British and American fiction over the past decade.Don DeLillo, Pat Barker, Aleksandar Hemon, Lorraine Adams, Michael Cunningham, and Patrick McGrath are among the
- Contents:
- Introduction: new ethics, new literatures, new Americas
- Falling man fiction : Delillo, Spiegelman, Shulman, and the spectatorial condition
- Sex and sense : McGrath, Tristram, and psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib
- Moral crusades : race, risk, and Walt Whitman's afterlives
- The internationalization of conscience : Hemon, Barker, Balkanism
- Reading for the pattern : narrative, data mining, and the transnational ethics of surveillance
- Conclusion : postincendiary circumstances.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613884725
- 9781283572279
- 1283572273
- 9780803244610
- 0803244614
- OCLC:
- 810124934
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