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September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma
Christine Muller
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Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JPWL2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 437.
This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change. The attacks confounded the traditionally dominant narrative of the American Dream, which has persistently and pervasively featured optimism and belief in a just world that affirms and rewards self-determination. This shattering of a worldview fundamental to mainstream experience and cultural understanding in the United States has manifested as a cultural trauma throughout popular culture in the first decade ... Read more
This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change. The attacks confounded the traditionally dominant narrative of the American Dream, which has persistently and pervasively featured optimism and belief in a just world that affirms and rewards self-determination. This shattering of a worldview fundamental to mainstream experience and cultural understanding in the United States has manifested as a cultural trauma throughout popular culture in the first decade ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319501543
SKU
V9783319501543
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About Christine Muller
Christine Muller is Dean of Saybrook College and Lecturer in American Studies at Yale University, USA. Her research focuses on popular culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century, particularly through the lens of post-September 11 cultural trauma in the era of the War on Terror.
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