Main entry:

Simpson, David, 1951-

Title & Author:

9/11 : the culture of commemoration / David Simpson.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Description:

x, 182 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-178) and index.
Remembering the dead : an essay upon epitaphs -- The tower and the memorial : building, meaning, telling -- Framing the dead -- Theory in the time of death.

Summary:

"After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a general sense that the world was different - that nothing would ever be the same - settled upon a grieving nation; the events of that day were received as cataclysmic disruptions of an ordered world. Refuting this claim, the author examines the complex and paradoxical character of American public discourse since that September morning, considering the ways the event has been aestheticized, exploited, and appropriated, while "Ground Zero" remains the contested site of an effort at adequate commemoration"--Back cover.

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ISBN:

0226759385 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780226759388 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0226759393 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780226759395 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Influence.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Anniversaries, etc.
Memorials Philosophy.
Critical theory.
Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, États-Unis Anniversaires.
Théorie critique.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
89.58 political violence.
Anniversaries
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Elfter September
Gedenken
Gedenkstätte
Kollektives Gedächtnis
September 11 2001.
Commemorations.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249199
Call No.: BIB 178777
Status: Available