Accommodating different conspiratorial views on 9/11 through ambiguity in Bleeding Edge

Posthumanist Trauma: An Intrasectional Approach to Accountable Determinacy in Current North American Narrative

“…the particularities that configure the character of Maxine, however, are carefully selected so that she has implausibly coincidental (overtly artificial) and privileged access to a diversity of perspectives on the 9/11 attacks, which qualifies her as an everyman (particular 14 but objective, in relative terms that initially seem to point to the paranoid uncertainty typically troubling the mind of Pynchonian characters). Also in a typically Pynchonian fashion, the novel's resistance to closure seems to have the double effect of suggesting that although it would not be possible for this everyman to resolve the uncertainty resulting from the relative perspectivism converging in her (Wallhead and Leissmer 2018), there is a conspiracy of some 14 i have analyzed the effects that the particularities of gender difference in the case of Maxine have in narrating national trauma (Fernández-santiago 2019). sort behind the attacks.…”