Conférence
Notice
Lieu de réalisation
Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry
Langue :
Anglais
Crédits
Massimiliano Demata (Intervention)
Conditions d'utilisation
Droit commun de la propriété intellectuelle
Citer cette ressource :
Massimiliano Demata. EMMA. (2025, 15 avril). "Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Blood, Body Politics and the Nation-as-Body", Massimiliano Demata, University of Turin, Italy.. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://www.canal-u.tv/162792. (Consultée le 25 avril 2025)

"Donald Trump and the Rhetoric of Blood, Body Politics and the Nation-as-Body", Massimiliano Demata, University of Turin, Italy.

Réalisation : 15 avril 2025 - Mise en ligne : 16 avril 2025
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Descriptif

Chair: Sandrine SORLIN (EMMA/IUF)

This lecture discusses the recent rhetorical fixation on blood within Donald Trump’s political discourse and the resonance of the term among his right-wing followers and supporters. The term ‘blood’ and the recurring theme of body politics have emerged as a recurring motif, operating both literally and metaphorically to evoke anxieties about national purity, vitality, and contamination. Trump’s phraseology often invokes imagery of conflictual or existential threats, drawing on long-standing and oft-employed tropes of body politics together with the metaphor of the nation as a wounded, raped and violated body in need of restoration and vindication. Furthermore, Trump manages to link the traditional metaphor of the body politic with the failed attempt to assassinate him on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania while on his campaign trail: images of Trump’s face streaming with blood have been instrumental in communicating the analogy between the body of the president and the body of the nation, thus reinforcing nationalist mythmaking.

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