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

by Marc Redfield

Book Overview

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"