Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Surveying the Frontiers of Home, Democracy and Belonging in the Literature of War on TerrorSk Sagir Ali Part I: Cartographies of Otherness and Strategic Outsiderism in Post 9/11 fictions1) “An Extravagant and Wheeling Stranger”–Encountering the Muslim as the NeighbourShinjini Basu2) Rewriting the American Narrative of Muslim Men: Ayad Akhtar’s Depiction of Race, Gender, and MasculinityNalini Iyer3) “There is no Israel for Me”: Je Suis Charlie, the Ends of the French Republic, and the Laicistic Contours of Islamophobic Dystopia in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission. Swayamdipta Das 4) Sinhala Budhist Nationalism and Shrinking Space for Muslims in Sri Lanka: The Post Tamil Elam War and 9/11 Situation Rajeesh CS5) The Making of Xenophobia: Migrating from Hatred to Grief in the Novels of Mohsin Hamid Debamitra Kar6) Pax Americana! : American Exceptionalism and Salman Rushdie’s Language of State Shayeari DuttaPart II: Reconfiguring the Contours of Home, Belonging, and the Rights of Conditional Citizenship in Post 9/11 Novels7) Imagining Citizenship, Democracy and Belonging in Laila Lalami’s Hope and OtherDangerous Pursuits and Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies Sk Sagir Ali 8) Globalization, Islamic Machine, and “Critical Localism” in the Aftermath of 9/11 Mosarrap Hossain Khan9) War, Terror and Migration: Hamid’s Exit West as a Cosmopolitan Novel Faisal Nazir Part III: Popular Imagination and the Ideological Representational Apparatus of Western Media and Culture in Post 9/11 Climate10) Tribute in Light: Memory (Re)PlacedPinaki De11) The Radical Sadness of Late-Night Television: The Comedy Talk Show in the Shadow of 9/11Sudipto Sanyal and Somnath Basu12) 9/11 and the Supervillain Crisis: A Study of the ‘Terrorist Villain’ and Terrorism in select MCU filmsRohan Hassan 13) Post 9/11 Digital Martyrdom – Digital Ephemera of Ireland and Digital Protest Movement of BangladeshKusumita DattaPart IV: Locating “Other” Lives and the Unmappable Registers of Precarity in 9/11 Novels14) Possible Lives, Impossible Times:The Tragic Queer Diasporic Muslim in Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s The ExilesAnil Pradhan15) You are My Creator, but I am Your Master” : A Reading of Frankenstein in Baghdad as a Postcolonial PharmakonAvijit Basak 16) The Trauma of Familiarity: A Very Brief Overview of British-Muslim Writings in the Post 9/11 UKPinaki RoyIndex