Narrating 9/11: fantasies of state, security, and terrorism

Introduction. Fantasies of 9/11 / John N. Duvall and Robert P. Marzec

State and corporate fantasies. Zero dark democracy / Timothy Melley

Fictitious capital: historicizing the present in William Gibson's "Bigend" trilogy / Hamilton Carroll

Climate change and the evolution of the 9/11 security state: the fantasy of adoption and Ian McEwan's Solar / Robert P. Marzec

Nostalgia for the future: temporality and exceptionalism in twenty-first century American fiction / Aaron Derosa

Lost in Iraq / Alan Nadel

Fantasies of trauma, ethnicity, and religion. Regarding the pain of self and other: trauma transfer and narrative framing in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close / Ilka Saal

Strange times to be a Jew: alternative history after 9/11 / Margaret Scanlan

Arab American citizenship in crisis: destabilizing representations of Arabs and Muslims in the United States after 9/11 / Carol Fadda-Conrey

Violence and the faithful in Post-9/11 America: Updike's Terrorist, Islam, and the specter of exceptionalism / Anna Hartnell

Fantasies of terrorism. Representing the enemy other: Jarett Kobek's ATTA, postmodern narrative, and the architectural unconscious / John N. Duvall

Policing the globe: state sovereignty and the international in the post-9/11 crime novel / Andrew Pepper

Outtakes and outrage: the means and ends of suicide terror / Samuel Thomas

Afterword: fantasy-work in the post-9/11 sphere / Donald E. Pease.