September 11, 2001 as a cultural trauma : a case study through popular culture

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September 11, 2001 as a cultural trauma : a case study through popular culture

Title remainder

a case study through popular culture

Statement of responsibility

Christine Muller

Creator

• Muller, Christine, 1975-
• Muller, Christine, 1975-

Author

• Muller, Christine, 1975-
• Muller, Christine, 1975-

Subject

• 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence

Language

eng

Summary

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 of the twenty-first century. Popular press oral histories, literary fiction, television, and film are among the multiple, ubiquitous sites evidencing preoccupations with existential crisis, vulnerability, and moral ambivalence, with fate, no-win scenarios, and anti-heroes now pervading commonly-told and readily-accessible stories. Christine Muller examines how popular culture affords sites for culturally-traumatic events to manifest and how readers, viewers, and other audiences negotiate their fallout

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YDX

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography