Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Beyond and Before 9/11: A Transnational Historical Turn.- Chapter 2 “The Second Coming”: The Resurgence of the Historical Novel and American Alternate History.- Chapter 3: “America First”: Fear, Memory, Activism, and Everyday Life in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.- Chapter 4: “In Memory of Toyoko H. Nozaka”: Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor was Divine.- Chapter 5: “Walking a Tightrope”: Illusion and Disillusion of American Innocence and Exceptionalism in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin.- Chapter 6: “What about the Names?”: Post-9/11 Commemorative Culture and Islamaphobia in Amy Waldman’s The Submission.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Connective Memories and Histories.

About the Author

Pei-chen Liao is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and the winner of the 2017 FAOS Innovative Young Scholar Award. Her publications include‘Post’-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction (2013) and articles in Life Writing, Review of English and American Literature, EurAmerica, and several other journals.