Terror, Culture, Politics

by Sherman, Daniel J.; Nardin, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780253218124
• ISBN10: 0253218128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11 takes a critical look at the politics of American culture in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks. The volume takes as axiomatic -- and, therefore, as demanding careful scrutiny -- the connection between culture as creative expression and culture in the broader sense of the beliefs, values, and habits that members of a society hold in common. Coming from a wide array of disciplines -- art history, history, literature, media studies, law, and political science -- the contributors ask not so much how 9/11 changed American culture but how our existing cultural patterns, in such separate but linked domains as the media, public art, and political thought, shaped our responses to it.

Author Biography

Daniel J. Sherman is Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies and Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.

Terry Nardin is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(14)
Terry Nardin and Daniel J. Sherman
PART ONE: IMAGE/MEMORY
1. "Document of Civilization and Document of Barbarism": The World Trade Center Near and Far	15	(18)
Patricia A. Morton
2. Two Projects with Commentary: "Around Ground Zero" (Map) and "New York, September 11, 2001—Four Days Later" (Satellite Photographs)	33	(11)
Laura Kurgan
3. Falling Persons and National Embodiment: The Reconstruction of Safe Spectatorship in the Photographic Record of 9/11	44	(25)
Susan Lurie
4. Captain America Sheds His Mighty Tears: Comics and September 11	69	(34)
Henry Jenkins
5. Trauma, Healing, and the Therapeutic Monument	103	(18)
Kirk Savage
6. Naming and the Violence of Place	121	(28)
Daniel J. Sherman
PART TWO: ETHICS/POLITICS
7. 9/11 and the Jihad Tradition	149	(16)
Sohail H. Hashmi
8. Women's Jihad before and after 9/11	165	(19)
miriam cooke
9. Who Defended the Country?	184	(22)
Elaine Scarry
10. The 9/11 Commission Report: Has It Incited a Public Debate about Our Nation's Defense?	206	(8)
Elaine Scarry
11. Rethinking Crisis Government	214	(22)
William E. Scheuerman
12. Human Rights and the Use of Force after September 11th, 2001	236	(23)
Stephen J. Toope
Contributors	259	(2)
Index	261