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  • 14 - Insecurity

  • from Part III - Themes
  • Edited by Joshua Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
    Published online:
    02 September 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 271-288

  • Summary

    Hamilton Carroll considers shifting trends across nearly two decades of post-9/11 novels from early works grappling with the unrepresentability of terror to recent narratives by Susan Choi, Mohsin Hamid, Joseph O’Neill, and Jess Walter that depict the everyday experiences of racialized precarity in a period of perpetual warfare, nuclear proliferation, migration catastrophes, and neo-ethnonationalisms. Political turmoil and violence by state and non-state entities remain central to twenty-first century life, even as the events of September 11, 2001, have shifted from recent trauma to historical retrospection.