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The terror dream, fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America, Susan Faludi

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The terror dream, fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America, Susan Faludi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-338) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The terror dream

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

122309160

Responsibility statement

Susan Faludi

Sub title

fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America

Summary

In this original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, journalist Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks of that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore "traditional" manhood, marriage, and maternity? Why did we react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? The answer, she finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite "barbarians" on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Pt. I: Ontogeny. We're at war, sweetheart ; The return of Superman ; The cowboys of yesterday ; Perfect virgins of grief ; Nesting nation ; President of the wild frontier ; Precious Little Jessi -- Pt. II: Phylogeny. Original shame ; Heed the mothers ; Here is our father! Now we are safe! ; Touch me not -- Epilogue: What if?

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