Contents; Permissions; Introduction; 1 Empathetically Unsettled; 2 Otherness as Counternarrative in the Graphic Novel; 3 French Fiction and the Utopian Potential of 9/11; 4 "Toward These Uncanny Young Men"; 5 "Selective in Your Mercies"; 6 The Otherness of Islam in Amy Waldman's The Submission; 7 Communal Trauma?; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author