Abstract
ABSTRACTPost-9/11 literature has been noted as lacking in critical force because it fails to envision America mediated by global history and international politics. The post-9/11 narratives of Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace, however, attempt to move away from American insularity and attain worldliness, specifically by abandoning the influence of postmodernism, which seemed to reinforce the provincial, self-involved nature of American culture by fostering the ideas of indeterminacy, irony, and depthless parody. Instead, by affirming the ethos of New Sincerity and a sensibility that this essay calls new worldliness, DeLillo and Wallace promote the cultivation of political acuity with which one can navigate the intertwined worlds of the local and the national, the private and the public, and the domestic and the international. They foster the values of social participation, political openness, and linguistic clarity, through which post-9/11 Americans become not only sincere but also worldly.
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