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

Index

345 INDEX Abel, Marco, 64 Abraham, Nicolas, 105 Abu Ghraib scandal, 15, 16, 30, 52, 133, 134–35, 145–46, 270, 308n12; After compared to, 151–52, 158, 159; compared to Balkan War atrocities, 216, 218–19; compared to lynchings, 171 abuse, 137–41 Adams, Lorraine, 25, 31, 257, 288, 295, 299–300; Harbor, 15, 55, 252, 270, 281–88; The Room and the Chair, 15 Adrian, Chris, 55; A Better Angel, 292; “The Changeling,” 294; “The Vision of Peter Damien,” 292–95; “Why Antichrist ?” 294–95 “Aesthetics” (Hale), 25, 26, 45 Afghanistan, 24, 30, 31, 56, 282 African Americans, lynchings of, 171 After (Tristram), 15, 52, 62, 110, 132–35, 139, 141–64, 187, 296; compared to Abu Ghraib scandal, 151–52, 158, 159; and Otherness, 163–64; plot of, 141–50; power politics and, 158–64; sexuality in, 152–53, 156–58; themes of, 155 After the End of History (Cohen), 3 After the Fall (Gray), 2 Agamben, Giorgio, 271 Alcorn, Marshall: Narcissism and the Literary Libido, 161–62 Alexie, Sherman: Flight, 310n1 Ali, Kazim: The Disappearance of Seth, 206 “Allegories of Falling” (Anker), 111 allegory, 110–32 Al Qaeda, 90, 282 ambiguity, 204, 226, 259, 289, 297, 300; in Bosnian War, 237; ending of After and, 146; and evil, 220; and the falling man, 72; imbalance of power and, 152–52; of insignificant happenings, 66; in literature, 2; moral vision of, 19; as organizing principle, 50; and politics, 28; as seduction and solace, 67; and sexual explicitness, 154 Ambuhl, Megan, 137 The American Novel Now (O’Donnell), 48 Amoore, Louise, 183 anarchists, 209–15 Anker, Elisabeth, 92 Anker, Elizabeth: “Allegories of Falling ,” 111 Another World (Barker), 231 Antor, Heinz, 129 Applied Rationalism (Bachelard), 267 index 346 Apter, Emily: “On Oneworldedness,” 46 Arab Americans, backlash against, 169–83 Arab culture, 138 The Arab Mind (Patai), 138 Archeologies of the Future (Jameson), 272, 275, 276 Arondekar, Anjali, 150 Ashcroft, John, 119–20 Atta, Mohammed, 50 Auster, Paul: Sunset Park, 11 An Autobiographical Study (Freud), 116 Avrich, Paul, 213 Axis of Evil, 213 Bachelard, Gaston: Applied Rationalism , 267 Badiou, Alain, 210; Ethics, 215, 216–17, 224–25; Handbook of Inaesthetics, 225 Bal, Mieke, 38–39 Balkan civil war, 19, 47, 207–10, 218–19 Ballard, J. G.: Millennium People, 6 Banerjee, Mita, 184 Barker, Pat, 25, 44, 294, 299, 314n13, 315n14; Another World, 231; Double Vision, 24, 27, 54, 161, 207, 229–49, 252, 258–61, 290; Life Class, 231, 232 Barthes, Roland: “Shock-Photos,” 59 Baudrillard, Jean, 15, 44–45, 278; “L’Esprit du Terrorisme,” 45 Bauman, Zygmunt, 51 Beck, Ulrich, 167, 198 Beigbeder, Frédéric, 49 Bell, Martin, 236–37 Bengley, Adam, 84 Bennett, Jill, 45 Bentham, Jeremy, 255 Bergoffen, Debra, 33–34 Bergstrom, Lucy, 270 Bersani, Leo, 52, 140, 159–60, 162–63 A Better Angel (Adrian), 292 Bin Laden, Osama, 16, 84, 174, 278 Blair, Tony, 107 Blazan, Sladja, 208, 222 Booth, Ken: “Worlds in Collision,” 289 Booth, Wayne, 34 Borradori, Giovanna, 50 Bosnian War, 13, 44, 53–54, 206–07, 229, 238–40, 299 Boulanger, Ghislaine, 113, 114 Boy 381 (Vanags), 270 Braidotti, Rosi, 29 Brandeis, Gayle, 24, 31; Self Storage, 53, 166, 167, 185–97, 199–200; and Walt Whitman, 186, 190–95 Brannigan, John: “An Interview,” 232, 243; Pat Barker, 232 Brin, David, 252 Brontë, Charlotte, 252 Brooks, David, 197 Brooks, Peter, 52 Burke, Anthony, 31 Bush, George W., 7, 16, 172, 177, 192, 208, 211, 218, 286; Axis of Evil and, 213; critique of, 30, 289; on decision points, 297; on overcoming evil, 216; social decay and, 87 Bush Doctrine, 32 Butler, Judith, 21, 25, 27, 73, 138, 146, 299; Precarious Life, 248; “Values of Difficulty,” 26 Cantor Fitzgerald, 289 Carey, James W., 98 Caruth, Cathy, 110; Unclaimed Experience , 4, 81 index 347 Casting Out (Razack), 216 Cavani, Liliana: The Night Porter, 27, 148–49 “The Changeling” (Adrian), 294 Chemtob, Claude, 118–19 “A Childhood” (McGrath), 112 “The Children’s Crusade” (Cunningham ), 196–201 Chow, Rey, 56; “Toward an Ethics of Postvisuality,” 38–39 Chute, Hillary, 77–78; “The Shadow,” 77 Cilano, Cara, 2 civil liberties, 120 Clinton, Bill, 297 closure, 130 Cohen, Samuel S.: After the End of History , 3 cold war era, 3, 16, 47, 210, 217 Columbia University, 117–18 “The Conductor” (Hemon), 207–08 confinement, 8 conscience, internationalization of, 241 Cooksey, John, 180 countertransference, 116, 130 cruelty, 1, 25, 47, 53, 133–40, 145–64...