Tourists of History
Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
In Tourists of History, the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America's innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh.Sturken cont…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8223-4122-2
- EAN: 9780822341222
- Produktnummer: 2999164
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 519 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 519
Über den Autor
Marita Sturken is a professor of culture and communication at New York University. She is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering and a coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture.
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