Georgiana Banita is an assistant professor of North American literature and media at the University of Bamberg and Honorary Research Fellow at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Ethics, New Literatures, New Americas1. Falling Man Fiction: DeLillo, Spiegelman, Schulman, and the Spectatorial Condition2. Sex and Sense: McGrath, Tristram, and Psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib3. Moral Crusades: Race, Risk, and Walt Whitman's Afterlives4. The Internationalization of Conscience: Hemon, Barker, Balkanism5. Reading for the Pattern: Narrative, Data Mining, and the Transnational Ethics of SurveillanceConclusion: Postincendiary CircumstancesNotesBibliography Index

"Part narrative theory, part ethical analysis, this book offers a well-written conceptual examination of the juncture between fiction and morality in the literature written in the wake of 9/11."-E. T. Mason, CHOICE "Banita's book makes an important contribution to scholarship on post-9/11 literature."-Clemens Spahr, NOVEL "With great breadth and power, Banita's Plotting Justice will be of interest to scholars concerned with discussion of narrative ethics, but also to scholars interested in the specific narrative strategies and themes that emerge in post-9/11 fiction."-James Gifford, The Year's Work in English Studies

Georgiana Banita is an assistant professor of North American literature and media at the University of Bamberg and Honorary Research Fellow at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Ethics, New Literatures, New Americas1. Falling Man Fiction: DeLillo, Spiegelman, Schulman, and the Spectatorial Condition2. Sex and Sense: McGrath, Tristram, and Psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib3. Moral Crusades: Race, Risk, and Walt Whitman's Afterlives4. The Internationalization of Conscience: Hemon, Barker, Balkanism5. Reading for the Pattern: Narrative, Data Mining, and the Transnational Ethics of SurveillanceConclusion: Postincendiary CircumstancesNotesBibliography Index

"Part narrative theory, part ethical analysis, this book offers a well-written conceptual examination of the juncture between fiction and morality in the literature written in the wake of 9/11."-E. T. Mason, CHOICE "Banita's book makes an important contribution to scholarship on post-9/11 literature."-Clemens Spahr, NOVEL "With great breadth and power, Banita's Plotting Justice will be of interest to scholars concerned with discussion of narrative ethics, but also to scholars interested in the specific narrative strategies and themes that emerge in post-9/11 fiction."-James Gifford, The Year's Work in English Studies

Georgiana Banita is an assistant professor of North American literature and media at the University of Bamberg and Honorary Research Fellow at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: New Ethics, New Literatures, New Americas1. Falling Man Fiction: DeLillo, Spiegelman, Schulman, and the Spectatorial Condition2. Sex and Sense: McGrath, Tristram, and Psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib3. Moral Crusades: Race, Risk, and Walt Whitman's Afterlives4. The Internationalization of Conscience: Hemon, Barker, Balkanism5. Reading for the Pattern: Narrative, Data Mining, and the Transnational Ethics of SurveillanceConclusion: Postincendiary CircumstancesNotesBibliography Index

"Part narrative theory, part ethical analysis, this book offers a well-written conceptual examination of the juncture between fiction and morality in the literature written in the wake of 9/11."-E. T. Mason, CHOICE "Banita's book makes an important contribution to scholarship on post-9/11 literature."-Clemens Spahr, NOVEL "With great breadth and power, Banita's Plotting Justice will be of interest to scholars concerned with discussion of narrative ethics, but also to scholars interested in the specific narrative strategies and themes that emerge in post-9/11 fiction."-James Gifford, The Year's Work in English Studies