Training for catastrophe : fictions of national security after 9/11

Training for catastrophe : fictions of national security after 9/11 /

"A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world. In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. Wi...

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Main Author: Thomas, Lindsay Carroll (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2021
Subjects:
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Preparedness > Government policy > United States.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects > United States.
Fiction > Social aspects > History > 21st century.
National security > United States > 21st century.
Preparedness in literature.
Disasters in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 21st century.
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