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Plotting Justice : Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture after 9/11

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...

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Autor principal: Banita, Georgiana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • 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.