Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Terrorist Rival . Don DeLillo’s Mao II and the Rushdie Affair 19 . Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man 37 Part II. Displaced Causes . Mary McCarthy’s Cannibals and Missionaries 59 . Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist 75 Part III. Novelist as Terrorist: Terrorism as Fiction . J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg 95 . Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Assignment 108 Part IV. Is Terrorism Dead? . Philip Roth’s and Robert Stone’s Jerusalem Novels 123 . Volodine’s Lisbonne dernière marge 139 Epilogue: Conrad and the Unabomber 155 Notes 163 Bibliography 183 Index 195 ...