This book examines the commemoration of 9/11 in American memorial culture. It argues that the emergence of counter-memories of September 11 has been compromised by the dominance of certain narrative paradigms or, frames of memory that have mediated the representation of the attacks across cultural, critical, political, and juridical discourses.

"Lucy Bond has produced a compelling analysis of the post-9/11 literary and legal cultures that draw upon and stretch the limits of the conventions of memory studies (and above all trauma studies) in place at the time of the event. Her book will appeal to those seeking a clear and comprehensive overview of the topic, as well as to readers already invested in the detailed study of the effects of 9/11, to whom she offers many new insights." - David Simpson, UC Davis, USA

Autorentext

Lucy Bond is lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, UK. Her teaching and research interest comprises contemporary American literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, environmental memory, and the Anthropocene. She has published several essays on American memorial culture after 9/11 and is co-editor, with Jessica Rapson, of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders.

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Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. American Trauma Culture after 9/11 2. The New American Jeremiad after 9/11 3. Analogical Holocaust Memory after 9/11 4. Memory, Law, and Justice after 9/11 Conclusion Notes Bibliography