{"product_id":"9781421417394","title":"Narrating 9\/11: Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNarrating 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the notion that Americans have overcome the national trauma of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The volume responds to issues of war, surveillance, and the expanding security state, including the Bush Administration’s policies on preemptive war, extraordinary rendition, torture abroad, and the suspension of privacy rights and civil liberties at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the work of Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Donald Pease, the contributors focus on the ways in which post-9\/11 narratives help make visible the fantasies that attempt to justify the ongoing state of exception and American exceptionalism. \u003ci\u003eNarrating 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e examines a variety of contemporary narratives as they relate to the cultural construction of the neoliberal nation-state, a role that mediates the possibilities of ethnic and religious identity as well as the ability to imagine terrorism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTouching on some of the mainstays of 9\/11 fiction, including Jonathan Safran Foer’s \u003ci\u003eExtremely Loud \u0026amp; Incredibly Close\u003c\/i\u003e and John Updike’s \u003ci\u003eTerrorist\u003c\/i\u003e, the book expands this particular canon by considering the work of such writers as Jess Walter, William Gibson, Lauren Groff, Ken Kalfus, Ian McEwan, Philip Roth, John le Carré, Laila Halaby, Michael Chabon, and Jarett Kobek. \u003ci\u003eNarrating 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e pushes beyond a critical focus on domestic realism, offering chapters that examine speculative and genre fiction, postmodernism, climate change, and the evolving security state, as well as the television series \u003ci\u003eLost\u003c\/i\u003e and the film \u003ci\u003eParadise Now\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161239830768,"sku":"9781421417394","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781421417394_p0.jpg?v=1763737890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781421417394","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}