Cultural Rhetorics of American Exceptionalism and the bin Laden Raid

by Marouf A. Hasian, Megan McFarlane

Overview

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 Osama bin Laden raid. The authors argue that these mediated debates have become inextricably entangled in political, military, cultural, and legal rhetorics of American exceptionalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433122996
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	07/19/2013
Series:	Critical Intercultural Communication Studies , #18
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Marouf A. Hasian, Jr. is Professor of Communication in the department of communication at the University of Utah. He is the author of five books including In the Name of Necessity: Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties (2005) and Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial Contexts: A Critical Rhetorical Examination of Legal Histories (Peter Lang, 2002).
Megan D. McFarlane is a PhD student of communication at the University of Utah.

Table of Contents

Contents: Intercultural Rhetorics and the Nature of American – American Myths, the Beginning of the Global War on Terrorism, and the Decade-Long «Manhunt» for bin Laden – Cosmopolitanism and International Reactions to the bin Laden Raid – Presidential Politics, Imperial Presidencies, and the Early Strategic Usages of «The Situation Room» – Liberal Exceptionalism and Ambivalent American Critiques of the bin Laden Raid – No Easy Day: Mark Owen’s Raiding Tale, Presidential Appearances, and the New American Exceptionalism – The bin Laden Raid at the Cineplex: Zero Dark Thirty, Intertextuality and the Future of America’s Overseas Contingency.