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Terrorism in American Memory - Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era (Hardcover)
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Terrorism in American Memory - Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era (Hardcover)
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The role of cultural memory in American identity Terrorism in
American Memory argues that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and all
that followed in its wake were the primary force shaping United
States politics and culture in the post-9/11 era. Marita Sturken
maintains that during the past two decades, when the country was
subjected to terrorist attacks and promulgated ongoing wars of
aggression, we have veered into increasingly polarized factions and
been extraordinarily preoccupied with memorialization and the
politics of memory. The post-9/11 era began with a hunger for
memorialization and it ended with massive protests over police
brutality that demanded the destruction of historical monuments
honoring racist historical figures. Sturken argues that memory is
both the battleground and the site for negotiations of national
identity because it is a field through which the past is
experienced in the present. The paradox of these last two decades
is that it gave rise to an era of intensely nationalistic politics
in response to global terrorism at the same time that it released
the containment of the ghosts of terrorism embedded within US
history. And within that disruption, new stories emerged, new
memories were unearthed, and the story of the nation is being
rewritten. For these reasons, this book argues that the post-9/11
era has come to an end, and we are now in a new still undefined era
with new priorities and national demands. An era preoccupied with
memory thus begins with the memorial projects of 9/11 and ends with
the radical intervention of the National Memorial for Peace and
Justice, informally known as the Lynching Memorial, in Montgomery,
Alabama, a project that, unlike the nationalistic 9/11 Memorial and
Museum in New York, dramatically rewrites the national script of
American history. Woven within analyses of memorialization,
memorials, memory museums, art projects on memory, and
architectural projects is a discussion about design and
architecture, the increased creation of memorials as experiences,
and the role of architecture as national symbolism and renewal.
Terrorism in American Memory sheds light on the struggles over who
is memorialized, who is forgotten, and what that politics of memory
reveals about the United States as an imaginary and a nation.
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