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9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness (Paperback)
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9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness (Paperback)
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9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness analyzes recent works of
fiction whose principal subject is the attacks of September 11,
2001. The readings of the novels question and assess the validity
and potential effectiveness of both the subsequent calls for a
cosmopolitan outlook and the related, but no less significant,
emphasis placed on empathy, and exhibited in such recent studies as
Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization, Karsten Stueber's
Rediscovering Empathy, and Julinna Oxley's The Moral Dimensions of
Empathy. As such, this study examines the extent to which "us" and
"them" narratives proliferated after 9/11, and the degree to which
calls for greater empathy and a renewed emphasis on cosmopolitan
values served to counterbalance an apparent movement towards
increased polarization, encapsulated in the oft-mentioned "clash of
civilizations." A principal objective of the book is thus to
examine the ethical and political implications revealed in the
exercising or withholding of empathy. For though empathy, in and of
itself, may not be sufficient, it is nevertheless a vital component
in the generation of actions one might identify as cosmopolitan. In
other words, this book examines the responses to 9/11 (in both
Western and non-Western novels) in order to uncover what their
dramatic renderings might tell us about the possibility of a truly
globalized community. The attainability of any cosmopolitan
engagement is contingent upon our abilities to understand the
other, knowing always that otherness eludes our grasp, and the best
we can do is imagine some version of it. It is primarily in this
capacity that the novel has a role to play. Whether it is the
challenge of connecting with the survivors of trauma and the
inhabitants of a traumatized city, or with a hyperpower that has
experienced its own vulnerability for the first time, or even with
the terrorist who seeks to commit violent acts, these novels afford
us the means of examining the complex dynamics involved in any
exhibition of fellow-feeling for the other, and the ever-present
potential failure of that engagement.
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