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Author: Susan Faludi
Narrator: Beth McDonald
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
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Running Time: 12 Hrs.


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The Terror Dream

The Terror Dream

Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America

by Susan Faludi




In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's 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.



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  • Published: October 2007
  • LearnOutLoud.com Product ID: T027586
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Audio CD 10 Discs 1427202184 9781427202185

 Politics  Contemporary Issues
 Social Sciences  Sociology
 Social Sciences  Current Events

 

This Author: Susan Faludi
This Narrator: Beth McDonald
This Publisher: Macmillan Audio
 
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