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The Rhetoric of Terror : Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror /

"The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom 9/11: a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In the first of the two interlinked essa...

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Autor principal: Redfield, Marc, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Spectral Life and the Rhetoric of Terror
  • Part I: Virtual Trauma. September 11
  • Ground Zero
  • Like a Movie
  • The Gigantic
  • World Trade Center and United 93
  • Virtual Trauma and True Mourning
  • Part II: War on Terror. The Sovereign and the Terrorist
  • Sovereignty at War
  • Terror
  • Terror in Letters
  • Romanticism and the War on Terror
  • Toward Perpetual Peace.