9/11: The Culture of CommemorationUniversity of Chicago Press, 2006 M05 15 - 182 páginas 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, while “Ground Zero” remains the contested site of an effort at adequate commemoration. In 9/11, Simpson argues that elements of the conventional culture of mourning and remembrance—grieving the dead, summarizing their lives in obituaries, and erecting monuments in their memory—have been co-opted for political advantage. He also confronts those who labeled the event an “apocalypse,” condemning their exploitation of 9/11 for the defense of torture and war. In four elegant chapters—two of which expand on essays originally published in the London Review of Books to great acclaim—Simpson analyzes the response to 9/11: the nationally syndicated “Portraits of Grief” obituaries in the New York Times; the debates over the rebuilding of the World Trade Center towers and the memorial design; the representation of American and Iraqi dead after the invasion of March 2003, along with the worldwide circulation of the Abu Ghraib torture photographs; and the urgent and largely ignored critique of homeland rhetoric from the domain of critical theory. Calling for a sustained cultural and theoretical analysis, 9/11 is the first book of its kind to consider the events of that tragic day with a perspective so firmly grounded in the humanities and so persuasive about the contribution they can make to our understanding of its consequences. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 29
Página 8
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 13
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 16
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 19
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Página 22
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Lo sentimos, el contenido de esta página está restringido..
Contenido
Taking Time | 1 |
An Essay upon Epitaphs | 21 |
Building Meaning Telling | 55 |
3 Framing the Dead | 87 |
4 Theory in the Time of Death | 121 |
Bibliography | 171 |
179 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Abu Ghraib photos Adorno Agamben already American Anthea Bell appear Arab architecture attack Auschwitz Baudrillard bodies bomb buildings called Cambridge Chicago Press claim commemoration critical critique culture Daniel Libeskind dead death democracy died Eagleton effort empirical enemy epitaphs ethical face Freedom Tower function Giorgio Agamben Ground Zero Holocaust homeland Howell Raines human icon ideology Ignatieff images imagined invasion of Iraq Iraqi Jacques Derrida language lesser evil Libeskind lives Lower Manhattan Marx means memorial monuments mourning Muselmann Muslim names obituaries one’s ongoing perhaps photographs political Portraits of Grief potential prisoners radical record response rhetoric sacred ground seems sense September 11 soldiers Sontag specter Specters of Marx Stanford University Press story suffering Susan Sontag tell terror terrorist theory tion torture tradition trans Twin Towers University of Chicago Verso victims Vietnam violence W. G. Sebald Wordsworth World Trade Center Žižek
Referencias a este libro
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-century America Dana Luciano Vista previa limitada - 2007 |