“Temperate and Nearly Cloudless”: The 9/11 Commission Report as Postmodern Pastiche

“Tuesday, September 11, 2001 dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States”. Thus begins Chapter One of the 9/11 Commission Report, a chapter that bears the title, “‘We have Some Planes’”. As with all good pop fiction, the reader awaits to see what this quote means, although we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alan Nadel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2011-09-01
Series:Altre Modernità
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1291