British And American Representations Of 9 11

Author : Oana-Celia Gheorghiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319752501

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British and American Representations of 9/11 by Oana-Celia Gheorghiu Pdf

This book argues that twenty-first-century neorealist fiction is inspired by political and journalistic discourses and, along with them, constitutes one of the many representations of the attacks on September 11 and their outcomes. Adopting a neorealist stance, this book is placed at the intersection of realism and fiction, with often reference to what is perceived as objective writing (media and political texts), not at all so divorced from the practice of literary writings on the event that shook the world on September 11, 2001.

Author : Jennifer Camden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317058489

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Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels by Jennifer Camden Pdf

Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of female characters who, while embodying the qualities associated with heroines, fail to achieve this status in the story. These "secondary heroines," often the friend or sister of the primary heroine, typically disappear from the action of the novel as the courtship plot progresses, only to return near the conclusion of the action with renewed demands on the reader's attention. Accounting for this persistent pattern, Camden suggests, reveals the cultural work performed by these unusual figures in the early history of the novel. Because she is often a far more vivid character than the heroine of the marriage plot, the secondary heroine inevitably engages the reader's interest in her plight. That the narrative apparently seeks to suppress her creates tension and points to the secondary heroine as a site of contested identity who represents an ideology of womanhood and nationhood at odds with the national ideals represented by the primary heroine, whom the reader is asked to embrace. In showing how the anxiety produced by these ideals is displaced onto the secondary heroine, Camden's study represents an important intervention into the ways in which early novels use character to further ideologies of race, class, sex, and gender.

Author : Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441119056

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Reframing 9/11 by Jeff Birkenstein,Anna Froula,Karen Randell Pdf

A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events.

Author : Oana-Celia Gheorghiu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527559011

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Shifting Twenty-First-Century Discourses, Borders and Identities by Oana-Celia Gheorghiu Pdf

The world is spinning around us and we are spinning with it. When changes occur at the geopolitical level, inevitable changes also occur in people’s identity and in the way they see and represent the world. This book looks at this world with new eyes, approaching contemporary history (and herstory) from a scholarly perspective that cancels borders. Emphasis here is laid on migration, geopolitics, global citizenship, human rights, the EU and the non-EU, and East and West, as represented in fiction and drama or translated on television. The first part of the volume deals with migration and alterations in the non-Western world, with constant references to September 11, terrorism and wars, and the Syrian refugee crisis, before the focus moves on to one of the most important migration hosts nowadays, the European Union, discussing its expansion to the East, French President Macron’s call for renewal, and, lastly, a possible beginning of the end, announced by Brexit. This volume is a mirror of the discourses of globalization, one that makes the old self-other dichotomy obsolete. We are all selves in the eye of the storm that is raving around us, bringing change with it.

Author : Susan S.M. Edwards
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030688967

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The Political Appropriation of the Muslim Body by Susan S.M. Edwards Pdf

Drawing upon law, politics, sociology, and gender studies, this volume explores the ways in which the Muslim body is stereotyped, interrogated, appropriated and demonized in Western societies and subject to counter-terror legislation and the suspension of human rights. The author examines the intense scrutiny of Muslim women’s dress and appearance, and their experience of hate crimes, as well as how Muslim men’s bodies are emasculated, effeminized and subjected to torture. Chapters explore a range of issues including Western legislation and foreign policy against the ‘Other’, orientalism, Islamophobia, masculinity, the intersection of gender with nationalism and questions about diversity, inclusion, religious freedom, citizenship and identity. This text will be of interest to scholars and students across a range of disciplines, including sociology, gender studies, law, politics, cultural studies, international relations, and human rights.

Author : Steven Chermak Ph.D.,Frankie Y. Bailey,Michelle Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313016257

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Media Representations of September 11 by Steven Chermak Ph.D.,Frankie Y. Bailey,Michelle Brown Pdf

The terrorist attacks on September 11th were unique and unprecedented in many ways, but the day will stand in our memories particularly because of our ability to watch the spectacle unfold. The blazing towers crumbling into dust, black smoke rising from the Pentagon, the unrecognizable remains of a fourth airplane in a quiet Pennsylvania field—these images, while disturbing and surreal, provide an important vehicle for interdisciplinary dialogue within media studies, showing us how horrific national disasters are depicted in various media. Each contributor to this volume offers a fresh, engaging perspective on how the media transformed the 9/11 crisis into an ideological tour de force, examining why certain readings of these events were preferred, and discussing the significance of those preferred meanings. Yet the contributors do not limit themselves to such standard news mediums such as newspapers and television. This anthology also covers comic books, songs, advertising, Web sites, and other non-traditional media outlets. Using a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors explore such topics as the amount of time dedicated to coverage, how the attacks were presented in the United States and abroad, how conflicting viewpoints were addressed, and how various artistic outlets dealt with the tragedy. Offering a unique approach to a topic of enduring interest and importance, this volume casts a new light on considerations of that day.

Author : Michaela Praisler,Oana-Celia Gheorghiu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527569591

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The Odyssey of Communism by Michaela Praisler,Oana-Celia Gheorghiu Pdf

This volume looks into the ways in which film has contaminated and re-shaped culture(s) and the collective unconscious, at both local and global levels, arguing that our lives have been impacted by the ‘then’ that we keep revisiting, lest we forget. It takes the reader from the Berlin Wall to China, and from the terror of communist political prisons and labour camps to the rosy image promoted by propaganda. A key point throughout the text is its interdisciplinary nature, as it brings together literature and film scholars, directors, sociologists and philosophers, whose overall conclusion is that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation. Structured along four parts which trace a Homeric (or rather Joycean) journey to a home metonymysed by the long-awaited freedom, this book sets out from the gloomiest aspects of totalitarianism in the Romanian, Serbian and Soviet ‘Hades(es)’ of traumatic psychological and physical experiences and of imposed silencing. The second part gathers together case studies of films illustrating more optimistic views of communism as ‘spring’ (in the USSR) or as a ‘golden age’ (in Romania), thus narcotising the communist ‘subjects’ and preventing them from seeing the actual inferno. The third section offers filmic accounts of the aftermaths of communism, engaging the readers in a nostalgic process that revisits, questions, reflects on and remembers communism on a larger, world stage. The coda rounds up the volume (and the journey therein) by crossing genre frontiers to written narratives with a cinematic component.

Author : John Phillip Reid
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0226708985

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The Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution by John Phillip Reid Pdf

"Americans did not rebel from Great Britain because they wanted a different government. They rebelled because they believed that Parliament was violating constitutional precepts. Colonial Whigs did not fight for American rights. They fought for English rights."—from the Preface John Phillip Reid goes on to argue that it was generally the application, not the definition, of these rights that was disputed. The sole—and critical—exception concerned the right of representation. American perceptions of the responsibility of representatives to their constituents, the necessity of equal representation, and the constitutional function of consent had diverged gradually, but significantly, from British tradition. Drawing on his mastery of eighteenth-century legal thought, Reid explores the origins and shifting meanings of representation, consent, arbitrary rule, and constitution. He demonstrates that the controversy which led to the American Revolution had more to do with jurisprudential and constitutional principles than with democracy and equality. This book will interest legal historians, Constitutional scholars, and political theorists.

Author : United States. Army. American Forces in Germany, 1918-1923
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Germany
ISBN : UCAL:$C180428

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American Representation in Occupied Germany, 1920-1921 ... by United States. Army. American Forces in Germany, 1918-1923 Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122873073

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American Representation in Occupied Germany, 1920-1921 by United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department Pdf

Author : Henry M. Gladney
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781499042108

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No Taxation without Representation by Henry M. Gladney Pdf

"The quintessential taxation protest was a 1768 missive from colonial Virginia to the British Government. This PMR (Petition to His Majesty, the Memorial to the House of Lords, and the Remonstrance to the House of Commons) was issued by the House of Burgesses (the elected Virginia Assembly), whose members included Washington and Jefferson. The Burgesses sent a PMR copy to every other colonial assembly, stimulating similar protests from Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and South Carolina (some copying the PMR wording) and the Declaration of Independence."--Back cover.

Author : Andaluna Borcila
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317807117

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American Representations of Post-Communism by Andaluna Borcila Pdf

With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American television. Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of return written by Eastern European-Americans, this book explores American ways of seeing and mapping communism’s disintegration and the narratives articulated around post-communist sites and subjects.

Author : Paul Baker,Costas Gabrielatos,Tony McEnery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107310797

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Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes by Paul Baker,Costas Gabrielatos,Tony McEnery Pdf

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and Islam, combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis methods to produce an objective picture of media attitudes. The authors analyse representations around frequently cited topics such as Muslim women who wear the veil and 'hate preachers'. The analysis is self-reflexive and multidisciplinary, incorporating research on journalistic practices, readership patterns and attitude surveys to answer questions which include: what do journalists mean when they use phrases like 'devout Muslim' and how did the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks affect press reporting? This is a stimulating and unique book for those working in fields of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, while clear explanations of linguistic terminology make it valuable to those in the fields of politics, media studies, journalism and Islamic studies.

Author : Janina Wierzoch
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839451878

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Home/Fronts by Janina Wierzoch Pdf

In recent years, the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have had an impact on the UK rivalled only by Brexit and the global financial crisis. For people at home, the wars were ever-present in the media yet remained distant and difficult to apprehend. Janina Wierzoch offers an analytical survey of British contemporary war narratives in novels, drama, film, and television that seek to make sense of the experience. The study shows how the narratives, instead of reflecting on the UK`s role as invader, portray war as invading the British home. Home loses its post-Cold War sense of »permanent peace« and is recast as a home/front where war once again becomes part of what it means to be »us«.

Author : Sophie Gilliat-Ray,Riyaz Timol
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039437412

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Leadership, Authority and Representation in British Muslim Communities by Sophie Gilliat-Ray,Riyaz Timol Pdf

The contributions explore Muslim religious leadership in multiple forms and settings. While traditional authority is usually correlated with theology and piety, as in the case of classically trained ulema, the public advocacy of Muslim community concerns is often headed by those with professionalized skillsets and civic experience. In an increasingly digital world, both women and men exercise leadership in novel ways, and sites of authority are refracted from traditional loci, such as mosques and seminaries, to new and unexpected places. This collection provides systematic focus on a topic that has hitherto been given rather diffuse consideration. It complements historical work on community leadership as well as more contemporary discussion on the training and role of Islamic religious authorities. It will be of interest to scholars in Religious Studies, Sociology, Political Science, History, and Islamic Studies.