Tourists of History Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero

Name: Tourists of History Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
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ISBN: 9780822341222

ISBN-10: 0822341220

ISBN-13: 9780822341222

Edition: 2007

Authors: Marita Sturken

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In "Tourists of History," the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America's innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Sturken contends that a consumer culture of comfort…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Consuming Fear and Selling Comfort



Citizens and Survivors: Cultural Memory and Oklahoma City



The Spectacle of Death and the Spectacle of Grief: The Execution of Timothy McVeigh



Tourism and "Sacred Ground": The Space of Ground Zero



Architectures of Grief and the Aesthetics of Absence


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index