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

by Marc Redfield

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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 essays making up The Rhetoric of Terror, Marc Redfield proposes the notion of "virtual trauma" to describe the cultural wound that this name-date both deflects...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823231240

ISBN13:9780823231249

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:148 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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