{"product_id":"terrorism-in-american-memory-memorials-museums-and-architecture-in-the-post-911-era-9781479811687","title":"Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9\/11 Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe role of cultural memory in American identity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerrorism in American Memory\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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. \u003ci\u003eTerrorism in American Memory\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarita Sturken\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003ePractices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (with Lisa Cartwright, third edition 2018), and \u003ci\u003eTourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism From Oklahoma City to Ground Zero\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and is the former editor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50861916782866,"sku":"9781479811687","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f215d37f-f362-4a07-9ea0-9581b25f5e50.jpg?v=1737607594","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/terrorism-in-american-memory-memorials-museums-and-architecture-in-the-post-911-era-9781479811687","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}