The War on Terror Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality

by Adam Hodges

Book Overview

The War on Terror Narrative analyzes three types of data--presidential speeches, U.S. media discourse, and focus group interviews--to provide a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and contestation of the Bush administration's narrative about the "war on terror." The narrative sustains, in Foucault's terms, a "regime of truth" by placing boundaries around what can meaningfully be said and understood about the subject. Adam...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199759588
• ISBN13: 9780199759583
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"