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

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

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 m...

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Redfield, Marc,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (148 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Spectral Life and the Rhetoric of Terror
  • PART I. Virtual Trauma
  • 1. September 11
  • 2. Ground Zero
  • 3. Like A Movie
  • 4. The Gigantic
  • 5. World Trade Center and United 93
  • 6. Virtual Trauma and True Mourning
  • PART II. War on Terror
  • 1. The Sovereign and the Terrorist
  • 2. Sovereignty at War
  • 3. Terror
  • 4. Terror in Letters
  • 5. Romanticism and the War on Terror
  • 6. Toward Perpetual Peace
  • Notes
  • Index

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