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

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction: New Ethics, New Literatures, New Americas 1 1. Falling Man Fiction: DeLillo, Spiegelman, Schulman, and the Spectatorial Condition 59 2. Sex and Sense: McGrath, Tristram, and Psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib 109 3. Moral Crusades: Race, Risk, and Walt Whitman’s Afterlives 165 4. The Internationalization of Conscience: Hemon, Barker, Balkanism 205 5. Reading for the Pattern: Narrative, Data Mining, and the Transnational Ethics of Surveillance 251 Conclusion: Postincendiary Circumstances 289 Notes 301 Bibliography 321 Index 345 ...