Terror Dream : Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America

English

ISBN: 1427202184

EAN: 9781427202185

Category: Political Science / General

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Release Date: 10/30/2007

Synopsis: In this most original examination of Americas post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the countrys psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock 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? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead us to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling security moms, swaggering presidential gun-slingers, and the rescue of a female soldier cast as a helpless little girl? The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults by non-white 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-as they did on September 11. Brilliant and important, The Terror Dream shows what 9/11 revealed about us-and offers the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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Terror Dream : Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America

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Format: Compact Disc

Height: 1.56 inches

Width: 5.57 inches

Length: 5.29 inches

Weight: 3.53 oz