Of heroes and victims: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the satirical post-9/11 novel 

    Resano, Dolores (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)

    This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It suggests that the debates ...