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Tourists of history : memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero / Marita Sturken.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sturken, Marita, 1957-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Psychic trauma--Social aspects--United States.
- Psychic trauma.
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes)--Social aspects--United States.
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes).
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- National characteristics, American.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Study of how the memorials created in Oklahoma City and at the World Trade Center site raise questions about the relationship between cultural memory and consumerism.
- Contents:
- Consuming fear and selling comfort
- Citizens and survivors : cultural memory and Oklahoma City
- The spectacle of death and the spectacle of grief : the execution of Timothy McVeigh
- Tourism and "sacred ground" : the space of Ground Zero
- Architectures of grief and the aesthetics of absence.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-331) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923623
- 9780822341031
- 0822341034
- 9781282923621
- 1282923625
- OCLC:
- 271178162
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