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Beam from the World Trade Center on display in Boston, MA, Sept. 11, 2002. (Image courtesy of Daniel Bersak.)
Prof. Charity Scribner
21F.013
Fall 2005
Undergraduate
This course features reading questions, located in the study materials section.
Within twenty-four hours of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 politicians, artists, and cultural critics had begun to ask how to memorialize the deaths of thousands of people. This question persists today, but it can also be countered with another: is building a monument the best way to commemorate that moment in history? What might other discourses, media, and art forms offer in such a project of collective memory? How can these cultural formations help us to assess the immediate reaction to the attack? To approach these issues, "Out of Ground Zero" looks back to earlier sites of catastrophe in Germany and Japan.
Scribner, Charity. 21F.013 Out of Ground Zero: Catastrophe and Memory, Fall 2005. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/21f-013-out-of-ground-zero-catastrophe-and-memory-fall-2005 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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