- 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.
- Variant Title
- Nine/eleven
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Simpson, David, 1951-
- Published
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
- Contents
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Remembering the dead : an essay upon epitaphs
The tower and the memorial : building, meaning, telling
Framing the dead
Theory in the time of death.
- Notes
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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.
其他题名:The culture of commemoration.
