This paper examines Laila Lalami's The Other Americans (2019) as a post 9/11 novel that records long-term effects of 9/11 and its aftermath on the lives of Arab Americans. Simultaneously capturing the effects of the War on Terror at home and abroad, Lalami offers a representation of traumatic events beyond the binaristic frame of victims and perpetrators. While focusing on post 9/11 racialization of Arabs in the US and the US-led War on Terror, Lalami depicts some Arab Americans as "implicated" in these patterns of violence and injustice. The novel simultaneously deconstructs binaries of guilt and innocence in intimate family events as well as events in the public sphere.

本文考察了莱拉·拉拉米（Laila Lalami）的《其他美国人》（The Other Americans，2019），这是9/11之后的小说，记录了9/11及其后果对阿拉伯美国人生活的长期影响。Lalami同时捕捉了国内外的反恐战争的影响，提供了受害者和犯罪者二元框架之外的创伤性事件的表示。拉拉米（Lalami）在关注美国9/11后种族歧视和美国领导的反恐战争时，描绘了一些阿拉伯裔美国人“牵连”于这些暴力和不公正现象。小说同时解构了亲密家庭事件以及公共领域事件中的有罪和无罪的二元论。