… In other words, I examine the responses to 9/11 in order to uncover what their dramatic
renderings might tell us about the possibility of a truly globalized community. And while the book …

… This is not to say that postcolonial readings of 9/11 literature are without merit. Failing to …
of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as a conflict between the very binaries of Self and Other that …

… of 9/11 correlates to other doom-laden depictions of contemporary American culture found
in literary responses to 9/11, … a sharp contrast to these other literary responses to the events. …

… the American Self and Terrorist Other. Informed by Dominick LaCapra’s work on empathic
unsettlement, this article will introduce how 9/11 fiction might deterritorialise binary concepts of …

… are essentially twofold: authors who narrate 9/11 as a tragic … with the “Other,” whereas
authors who address 9/11 as a … have great faith because of the compassion and love that our …

… Indeed, 9/11 bequeathed to the US a new category of evil other, a decade and more after …
This thesis will investigate how this new other is represented in three post-9/11 novels, Mohsin …

… It is telling that these quotations, though reminiscent of the political rhetoric of the Bush era,
are all taken from critical literature on 9/11 fiction, where the threat of the Other is consistently …

… empathy of the sort Ian McEwan described shortly after the event. As he put it: ‘Imagining what
it is like to be someone other … the other, drawing attention to the element of the other within …

… tive events such as 9/11 may act as a catalyst to release waves of empathy that it is …
Otherness from the reader” (“Fiction as Restriction” 189). The post-9/11 novel builds on Otherness …

… , I wish to illustrate how these novels favor a capacity to empathize with the “other.” Moreover,
I will contend that Aslam’s fusion of various temporal strata, through which the postcolonial …