Terrorism Before the Letter: Benito Cereno and the 9/11 Commission Report.

This essay argues that Herman Melville's 1855 novella, Benito Cereno, serves as a historical model for thinking through the construction of paranoid narrative in the 9/11 Commission Report. Melville's text invites a consideration of slavery's role in the preservation of status quo politics, and reve...

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Published in:	Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 23 - 48
Main Author:	Traister, Bryce
Format:	Essay
Published:	University of Toronto Press 2013
Subjects:	Benito Cereno (Book : Melville) Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States Slavery in literature Counterterrorism United States politics & government, 2001-2009 United States
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