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...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 23 - 48 |
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University of Toronto Press
2013
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