9/11 The Culture of Commemoration

Name: 9/11 The Culture of Commemoration
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ISBN: 9780226759395

ISBN-10: 0226759393

ISBN-13: 9780226759395

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Simpson

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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, David Simpson 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, nbsp;while “Ground Zero” remains the contested site of an effort at adequate commemoration.nbsp; In 9/11, Simpson argues that elements of the conventional culture of mourning and remembrance—grieving the dead, summarizing…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.43" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

David Simpson is the G. B. Needham Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Taking Time



Remembering the Dead: An Essay upon Epitaphs



The Tower and the Memorial: Building, Meaning, Telling



Framing the Dead



Theory in the Time of Death


Bibliography


Index