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Author:

Banita, Georgiana.

Title:

Plotting justice : narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 / Georgiana Banita.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiv, 357 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
Ethics in literature.
Psychoanalysis in literature.
Social change in literature.
Literature and morals.
Literature and society--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-343) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: new ethics, new literatures, new Americas -- Falling man fiction : Delillo, Spiegelman, Shulman, and the spectatorial condition -- Sex and sense : McGrath, Tristram, and psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib -- Moral crusades : race, risk, and Walt Whitman's afterlives -- The internationalization of conscience : Hemon, Barker, Balkanism -- Reading for the pattern : narrative, data mining, and the transnational ethics of surveillance -- Conclusion : postincendiary circumstances.

ISBN:

0803240384 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803240384 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)785862643

LCCN:

2012014470

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)