Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions
Jenifer Chao, "Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions "
English | ISBN: 1138710881 | 2017 | 150 pages | EPUB | 1141 KB
English | ISBN: 1138710881 | 2017 | 150 pages | EPUB | 1141 KB
Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical lens of cultural resistance. It assesses the intersecting ways that popular culture has been deployed as oppositional practice in the post-9/11 context by documenting a collection of media texts, including a political hip hop album, a TV sitcom, a best-selling novel and studio photographs. Deviating from the conventional discursive and representative axis of mourning, nationalism and commemoration, this multimedia assemblage contests and rearticulates the political meanings, affects and visualizations of the war on terror and its global consequences.
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