Terror, culture, politics : rethinking 9/11

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Title:

Author:

Sherman, Daniel J.

ISBN:

9780253346728

9780253218124

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Physical Description:

vi, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

21st Century studies ; v. 1

21st century studies ; vol. 1

Series Title:

21st Century studies ; v. 1

General Note:

Originated in a conference held at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Oct. 2002.

Contents:

"Document of civilization and document of barbarism": the World Trade Center near and far / Patricia A. Morton -- Two projects with commentary: "Around Ground Zero" (map) and "New York, September 11, 2001 Four Days Later" (aerial photographs) / Laura Kurgan -- Falling persons and national embodiment: the reconstruction of safe spectatorship in the photographic record of 9/11 / Susan Lurie -- Captain America sheds his mighty tears: comics and September 11 / Henry Jenkins -- Trauma, healing, and the therapeutic monument / Kirk Savage -- Naming and the violence of place / Daniel J. Sherman -- Ethics/politics -- 9/11 and the Jihad tradition / Sohail H. Hashmi.

Women's Jihad before 9/11 / Miriam Cooke -- Who defended the country? / Elaine Scarry -- The 9/11 Commission Report: has it incited a public debate about our nation's defense? / Elaine Scarry -- Rethinking crisis government / William E. Scheuerman -- Human rights and the use of force after September 11th, 2001 / Stephen J. Toope.

Subject Term:

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Social aspects -- Congresses.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.

Civil defense -- United States -- Management -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses.

Civil rights -- United States -- Congresses.

War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Political aspects -- Congresses.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Civilization -- 1970- -- Congresses.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009 -- Congresses.

Added Author:

Sherman, Daniel J.

Nardin, Terry, 1942-

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Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11 takes a critical look at the politics of American culture in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks. The volume takes as axiomatic -- and, therefore, as demanding careful scrutiny -- the connection between culture as creative expression and culture in the broader sense of the beliefs, values, and habits that members of a society hold in common. Coming from a wide array of disciplines -- art history, history, literature, media studies, law, and political science -- the contributors ask not so much how 9/11 changed American culture but how our existing cultural patterns, in such separate but linked domains as the media, public art, and political thought, shaped our responses to it.