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 autho
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 toAbu 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
