9/11: The Culture of Commemoration

by David Simpson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226759393
• ISBN13: 9780226759395
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"