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Conclusion: Cultural Trauma—September 11, 2001, and Beyond

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Popular culture affords sites for exploring how culturally traumatic events manifest and how readers, viewers, and other audiences negotiate their fallout. September 11, 2001, serves as one case study of cultural trauma, with its violation of traditionally dominant US beliefs in optimism and a just world which affirms and rewards self-determination. Yet the use of widely distributed, easily accessible forms of popular culture, such as the nonfiction, literary fiction, television, and film considered here, can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change.

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Muller, C. (2017). Conclusion: Cultural Trauma—September 11, 2001, and Beyond. In: September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50155-0_7

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