Includes bibliographical references and index
Paul Petrovic: Introduction
Marjorie Worthington: Counter-reactions against realism. Jess Walter's The zero: satirizing the "desert of the real"
Jeffrey Severs: Memorializing post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic city
Tamara Watkins: Never give a good politician time to pray: Stephen King's treatment of political power and community involvement in Under the dome
Anne Canavan: Which came first: zombies or the plague?: Colson Whitehead's Zone one as Post-9/11 allegory
James M. Gilmore: A eulogy of the urban superhero: the everyday destruction of space in the superhero film
Amir Khadem: Perception, ideology and community. Paucity of imagination: stereotypes, public debates, and the limits of ideology in Amy Waldman's The submission
Damon Barta: Strangers in a homeland: veterans and "innocensus" in Billy Lynn's Long halftime walk and The yellow birds
Paul Petrovic: "Our new customer is the Bush administration": questioning cultural identity and governmental surveillance in Allegra Goodman's The cookbook collector
Lloyd Isaac Vayo: "I'm the motherfucker who found this place": locating post-Bin Laden America in Zero dark thirty
Deborah Pless: From 24 to Homeland: the shift in America's perception of terrorism
Shana Kraynak: Masculinity, marginalization, melancholy, and hyper-protection: the danger that keeps knocking: representations of post-9/11 masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking bad
Ken Feil: Post-closet and post-9/11: the bromantic imagination of disaster in This is the end and I'm so excited!
Elizabeth Lowry: The human barnyard: rhetoric, identification, and symbolic representation in Giannina Braschi's United States of banana
Megan Cannella: The pain and prison of post-9/11 parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom
Ariela Freedman: How to get to 9/11: Teju Cole's melancholic fiction
Lin Knutson: Poetic responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's "The school among the ruins"
Laura Findlay: International responses. "Some sense of bridge-making": exploring the relationship between America and Pakistan in Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and Mira Nair's film adaptation
Danica Van De Velde.: Haunting cartographies: mapping the aftermath in Joachim Trier's Oslo, 31st August
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