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(3.98) | 15 | 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.… (mer) |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. A bitter chill crept along the whole length of his body. The frozen ground seemed to drain the heat from his blood, and the blood from his heart itself. Perhaps it was that, and knowing where he was, that accounted for what happened next. Or maybe scars, almost as old as he was, were still in existence, down at the bottom of his mind, long buried under everything that had happened in between. The sky seemed to darken, while a ringing, buzzing sound came into his ears, and when the sky was completely black it began to redden with a bloody glow. His stomach dropped from under his heart, and a horrible fear filled him -- the fear of a small helpless child, abandoned and alone in the night. He tried to spring up and out of that, and he could not move; he lay there rigid, seemingly frozen to the ground. Behind the ringing in his ears began to rise the unearthly yammer of the terror-dream -- not heard, not even remembered, but coming to him like an awareness of something happening in some unknown dimension not of the living world. -Alan Le may, The Searchers
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I "Trauma at Home 9/11", en av flera högstämda antologier som gavs ut under de första svamlande försöken att "finna mening" bland spillrorna efter tvillingtornen levererade Judith Greenberg, professor i jämförande litteraturstudier, "ett exempel på hur denna tragedi har spelats ut mot kropp och själ". | |
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11 september erbjuder oss, även nu, chansen att gå tillbaka till det förflutna och vända upp och ner på det långvariga förnekandet och föreställa oss en nationell identitet som inte bygger på någon viril illusion utan på de talanger som vi alla, både kvinnor och män, har i lika hög grad. (Klicka för att visa. Varning: Kan innehålla spoilers.) | |
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Intressant nog visar författaren ett historiskt samband. Hon redogör för hur den historiska beskrivningen av kampen mot indianerna (främst) under nybyggartiden även den glorifierade mannens mod och förminskade kvinnan till offer.
Jag tycker detta varit en ögonöppnare. Det är intressant att ta del av någon skarpsynt persons (kritiska) analys av den information som samhället pumpar oss full med. Tur att någon kan sålla - och vill dela med sig av sina slutsatser. ( )