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Cultural Rhetorics of American Exceptionalism and the Bin Laden Raid
Marouf Arif Hasian
Megan McFarlane
出版
Peter Lang Publishing
, 2013
主題
Art / General
Biography & Autobiography / Political
Drama / General
History / Asia / General
History / Military / United States
Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Political Science / General
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Political Science / Terrorism
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
True Crime / General
ISBN
1433122995
9781433122996
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CKKFnQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The stories that are told about the death of Osama bin Laden are interculturally significant as a reminder of the many culturally contested junctures, fissures, and ruptures that circulate in the «true» stories that are told about Operation Neptune's Spear. This book's critical intercultural approach investigates what U.S. and international audiences were saying about other cultures while they wrote and talked about the bin Laden raid.
The book explains why so many elite and public cultural communities have a vested interest in telling the story of «what happened» during the famous raid. The authors argue that these mediated debates have become inextricably entangled in political, military, cultural, and legal rhetorics of «American exceptionalism», where various U.S. and international audiences defend or attack particular interpretations of the raid and comment on the unique values and characteristics of America's Way of War. This important book gives readers a sense of what these exceptionalist rhetorics look like when they circulate in different cultural and military contexts.