Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s ‘Homeland’: de-constructing the rhetoric of consensus in the aftermath of September 11th attacks
Focusing on Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s reportage Homeland (2004), this essay explores the de-construction of the discursive and cultural strategies of the “state of exception” used to depict 9/11 events and the dialectics between domestic and international politics and economies. The an...
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| description | Focusing on Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s reportage Homeland (2004), this essay explores the de-construction of the discursive and cultural strategies of the “state of exception” used to depict 9/11 events and the dialectics between domestic and international politics and economies. The analysis focuses in particular on four elements: the concept of “Ground Zero” and “Homeland” and their use as lexical and symbolic catalysts of nationalism; the forms and the erasure of dissent; the commodification of 9/11 and the Iraqi war; and the relation between the national rhetoric and the transnational economy in the last two decades. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-220a411cc6a94e1c832831ae762bb2e52023-09-03T00:12:35ZengMilano University PressAltre Modernità2035-76802011-09-010031032410.13130/2035-7680/13111229Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s ‘Homeland’: de-constructing the rhetoric of consensus in the aftermath of September 11th attacksCinzia Schiavini0Università degli Studi di MilanoFocusing on Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s reportage Homeland (2004), this essay explores the de-construction of the discursive and cultural strategies of the “state of exception” used to depict 9/11 events and the dialectics between domestic and international politics and economies. The analysis focuses in particular on four elements: the concept of “Ground Zero” and “Homeland” and their use as lexical and symbolic catalysts of nationalism; the forms and the erasure of dissent; the commodification of 9/11 and the Iraqi war; and the relation between the national rhetoric and the transnational economy in the last two decades.https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/13119/11HomelandDale MaharidgeMichael Williamson |
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| title | Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s ‘Homeland’: de-constructing the rhetoric of consensus in the aftermath of September 11th attacks |
| title_full | Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s ‘Homeland’: de-constructing the rhetoric of consensus in the aftermath of September 11th attacks |
| title_fullStr | Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s ‘Homeland’: de-constructing the rhetoric of consensus in the aftermath of September 11th attacks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s ‘Homeland’: de-constructing the rhetoric of consensus in the aftermath of September 11th attacks |
| title_short | Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s ‘Homeland’: de-constructing the rhetoric of consensus in the aftermath of September 11th attacks |
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