Memorials to Shattered Myths
Vietnam to 9/11
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20008193 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harriet F Senie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Memorials to Shattered Myths Vietnam to 9/11 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190248390.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2742894340 |
| ISBN | 9780190248390 |
| Open Library | OL28575913M |
| Google Books | LeURDAAAQBAJ |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Although radically different, the Vietnam War, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School shootings, and the attacks of 9/11 all shattered myths of national identity. Vietnam was a war the United States didn’t win, on the ground in Asia or politically at home; Oklahoma City revealed domestic terrorism in the heartland; Columbine debunked legends of high school as an idyllic time; and 9/11 demonstrated U.S. vulnerability to international terrorism. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was created with the intention of separating the victims from the war that caused their death. This focus on the loss of individual lives, evident in the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, the Columbine Memorial, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, all conflate the function of cemeteries where deaths are singular and grieving is personal, with the task of memorials, to remember and mourn actual and symbolic communal losses, reflecting on national events framed in a larger context. This book traces the evolution and consequences of this new hybrid paradigm based on strategies of diversion and denial
Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Denial · Mythology · National identity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Terrorism · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Classics · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Memorialization · Memorials · Nationalism · Nationalism and collective memory · united states · Victims
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |