Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-201) and index.
Introduction : Images of Terror, Narratives of (In)security -- The New "New York Novel" : The Epicenter and Its Reverberations -- Early Transatlantic Projections : Frédéric Beigbeder and Ian McEwan -- Democratic Vistas : Michael Cunningham and Walt Whitman -- Cosmopolitan Attempts : Joseph O’Neill and Mohsin Hamid -- Terror in the European Periphery : Ricardo Menéndez Salmón and José Saramago -- Beyond the Transatlantic Nexus : Salman Rushdie and J.M. Coetzee -- Transatlantic Fictions : Captivity, Security, and Futurity