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Résumé :
Acknowledgments Introduction: Paul Petrovic COUNTER-REACTIONS AGAINST REALISM: Chapter 1: Jess Walter's The Zero: Satirizing the 'Desert of the Real' Marjorie Worthington Chapter 2: Memorializing Post-9/11 New York in Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City Jeffrey Severs Chapter 3: Never Give a Good Politician Time to Pray: Stephen King's Treatment of Political Power and Community Involvement in Under the Dome Tamara Watkins Chapter 4: Which Came First...

Biographie:
Zombies or the Plague?: Colson Whitehead's Zone One as
Post-9/11 Allegory
Anne Canavan
Chapter 5: A Eulogy of the Urban Superhero: The Everyday Destruction of Space in the Superhero Film
James M. Gilmore
PERCEPTION, IDEOLOGY AND COMMUNITY:
Chapter 6: Paucity of Imagination: Stereotypes, Public Debates, and the Limits of
Ideology in Amy Waldman's The Submission
Amir Khadem
Chapter 7: Strangers in a Homeland: Veterans and Innocensus in Billy Lynn's Long
Halftime Walk and The Yellow Birds
Damon Barta
Chapter 8: Our New Customer is the Bush Administration?: Questioning Cultural
Identity and Governmental Surveillance in Allegra Goodman's The Cookbook Collector
Paul Petrovic
Chapter 9: I'm the Motherfucker Who Found This Place: Locating Post-bin Laden
America in Zero Dark Thirty
Lloyd Isaac Vayo
From 24 to Homeland: the Shift in America's Perception of Terrorism-Deborah Pless
MASCULINITY, MARGINALIZATION, MELANCHOLY, AND HYPER-PROTECTION:
Chapter 10: The Danger that Keeps Knocking: Representations of Post-9/11 Masculinity in
Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad
Shana Kraynak
Chapter 11: Post-Closet and Post-9/11: The Bromantic Imagination of Disaster in This Is
the End and I'm So Excited!
Ken Feil
Chapter 12: The Human Barnyard: Rhetoric, Identification, and Symbolic Representation
in Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana
Elizabeth Lowry
Chapter 13: The Pain and Prison of Post-9/11 Parenting in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom Megan Cannella
Chapter 14: How to Get to 9/11: Teju Cole's Melancholic Fiction
Ariela Freedman
Chapter 15: Poetic Responses to 9/11 and Adrienne Rich's The School Among the Ruins
Lin Knutson
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES:
Chapter 16: 'Some sense of Bridge-making': Exploring the Relationship between America
and Pakistan in Moshin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Mira Nair's Film Adaptation
Laura Findlay
Chapter 17: Haunting Cartographies: Mapping the Aftermath in Joachim Trier's Olso, 31st
August
Danica van de Velde
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