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Author Sturken, Marita, 1957-, author

Title Tourists of history : memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero / Marita Sturken.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.93 STU    Check Shelf
Description xii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-331) and index.
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.
Subject Collective memory -- United States.
Psychic trauma -- Social aspects -- United States.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
National characteristics, American.
Popular culture -- United States.
Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
ISBN 9780822341031 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822341034 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822341222 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822341220 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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