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• Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 (United States)

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Author:   John N. Duvall (Purdue University) ,  Robert P. Marzec (Associate Editor, Modern Fiction Studies, Purdue University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781421417387

ISBN 10:   1421417383
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   06 November 2015
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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 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"

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John N. Duvall is the Margaret Church Distinguished Professor of English at Purdue University. The editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, he is the author of Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison. Robert P. Marzec is an associate professor of English at Purdue University. The associate editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, he is the author of An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature: From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie.

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