Frames of Memory after 9/11

Culture, Criticism, Politics, and Law
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-49439-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3067 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

This book examines the commemoration of 9/11 in American memorial culture. It argues that the emergence of counter-memories of September 11 has been compromised by the dominance of certain narrative paradigms – or, frames of memory – that have mediated the representation of the attacks across cultural, critical, political, and juridical discourses.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bond, L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. American Trauma Culture after 9/11 2. The New American Jeremiad after 9/11 3. Analogical Holocaust Memory after 9/11 4. Memory, Law, and Justice after 9/11 Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Lucy Bond is lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, UK. Her teaching and research interest comprises contemporary American literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, environmental memory, and the Anthropocene. She has published several essays on American memorial culture after 9/11 and is co-editor, with Jessica Rapson, of .