Terror, culture, politics
Subtitle: rethinking 9/11
By: Daniel J. Sherman and Terry Nardin, editors.
Contributors: Sherman, Daniel J.; Nardin, Terry, 1942-
Series: 21st Century studies ;; v. 1
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Social aspects; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Psychological aspects; Civil defense -- United States -- Management -- History -- 21st century; Civil rights -- United States; War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Political aspects; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originated in a conference held at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Oct. 2002.
Table of contents: title: Image/memory; title: "Document of civilization and document of barbarism": the World Trade Center near and far / Patricia A. Morton; title: Two projects with commentary: "Around Ground Zero" (map) and "New York, September 11, 2001 Four Days Later" (aerial photographs) / Laura Kurgan; title: Falling persons and national embodiment: the reconstruction of safe spectatorship in the photographic record of 9/11 / Susan Lurie; title: Captain America sheds his mighty tears: comics and September 11 / Henry Jenkins; title: Trauma, healing, and the therapeutic monument / Kirk Savage; title: Naming and the violence of place / Daniel J. Sherman; title: Ethics/politics; title: 9/11 and the Jihad tradition / Sohail H. Hashmi; title: Women's Jihad before 9/11 / Miriam Cooke; title: Who defended the country? / Elaine Scarry; title: The 9/11 Commission Report: has it incited a public debate about our nation's defense? / Elaine Scarry; title: Rethinking crisis government / William E. Scheuerman; title: Human rights and the use of force after September 11th, 2001 / Stephen J. Toope.