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ISBN
9780822341222
Book Title
Tourists of History : Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
Publisher
Duke University Press
Item Length
9.2 in
Publication Year
2007
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Marita Sturken
Genre
Social Science, Antiques & Collectibles, Business & Economics, History
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Popular Culture, General, United States / 21st Century, Economics / General
Item Weight
18.8 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
360 Pages

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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822341220
ISBN-13
9780822341222
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60661628

Product Key Features

Book Title
Tourists of History : Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Popular Culture, General, United States / 21st Century, Economics / General
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Antiques & Collectibles, Business & Economics, History
Author
Marita Sturken
Format
Perfect

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Trade
LCCN
2007-018101
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
“ Tourists of History is a fearless guide through the paranoid landscape of contemporary American culture. Marita Sturken brilliantly maps the ways consumerism and tourism offer avenues of comfort in a threatening world at the same time that they become politically disabling. From the responses to the Oklahoma City bombing to the memorials to the Twin Towers, Sturken shows how the American way of mourning and remembering the dead shores up a conviction in a timeless sense of national innocence. This exceptionally timely book reaches deep into the past and will continue to resonate in the future.�- Amy Kaplan , author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture, "Tourists of History is a fearless guide through the paranoid landscape of contemporary American culture. Marita Sturken brilliantly maps the ways consumerism and tourism offer avenues of comfort in a threatening world at the same time that they become politically disabling. From the responses to the Oklahoma City bombing to the memorials to the Twin Towers, Sturken shows how the American way of mourning and remembering the dead shores up a conviction in a timeless sense of national innocence. This exceptionally timely book reaches deep into the past and will continue to resonate in the future."--Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture "Tourists of History is a great read: well written, accessible on numerous levels, and driven by a persuasive argument that links tourism, consumerism, and Americans' understandings of themselves and their history."--Erika Doss, author of Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities, " Tourists of History is a fearless guide through the paranoid landscape of contemporary American culture. Marita Sturken brilliantly maps the ways consumerism and tourism offer avenues of comfort in a threatening world at the same time that they become politically disabling. From the responses to the Oklahoma City bombing to the memorials to the Twin Towers, Sturken shows how the American way of mourning and remembering the dead shores up a conviction in a timeless sense of national innocence. This exceptionally timely book reaches deep into the past and will continue to resonate in the future."- Amy Kaplan , author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture, " Tourists of History is a fearless guide through the paranoid landscape of contemporary American culture. Marita Sturken brilliantly maps the ways consumerism and tourism offer avenues of comfort in a threatening world at the same time that they become politically disabling. From the responses to the Oklahoma City bombing to the memorials to the Twin Towers, Sturken shows how the American way of mourning and remembering the dead shores up a conviction in a timeless sense of national innocence. This exceptionally timely book reaches deep into the past and will continue to resonate in the future."-- Amy Kaplan , author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture, " Tourists of History is a great read: well written, accessible on numerous levels, and driven by a persuasive argument that links tourism, consumerism, and Americans' understandings of themselves and their history."- Erika Doss , author of Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities, “ Tourists of History is a great read: well written, accessible on numerous levels, and driven by a persuasive argument that links tourism, consumerism, and Americans’ understandings of themselves and their history.�- Erika Doss , author of Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities, " Tourists of History is a great read: well written, accessible on numerous levels, and driven by a persuasive argument that links tourism, consumerism, and Americans' understandings of themselves and their history."-- Erika Doss , author of Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities
Dewey Decimal
973.93
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Consuming Fear and Selling Comfort 35 2. Citizens and Survivors: Cultural Memory and Oklahoma City 93 3. The Spectacle of Death and the Spectacle of Grief: The Execution of Timothy McVeigh 139 4. Tourism and "Sacred Ground": The Space of Ground Zero 165 5. Architectures of Grief and the Aesthetics of Absence 219 Conclusion 287 Notes 295 Bibliography 319 Index 333
Synopsis
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 contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial t-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a "tourist" relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without having to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluence--of memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitsch--that promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal government's repressive measures at home and its aggressive political andmilitary policies abroad., How the memorials created in Oklahoma City and at the World Trade Center site raise questions about the relationship between cultural memory and consumerism, 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 contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial t-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a "tourist" relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without having to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluence--of memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitsch--that promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal government's repressive measures at home and its aggressive political and military policies abroad., 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 Americas 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 the two primary outcomes of the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Sturken contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as a World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial t-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a tourist relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without have to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluenceof memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitschthat promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal governments repressive measures at home and its aggressive political and military policies abroad.
LC Classification Number
E169.12.S8495 2007

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