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- Lund, Martin, 1984-
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‘Every day is 9/11!’ : Re-constructing Ground Zero in three US comics
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2050-9790 .- 2050-9804. ; 4:1-2, s. 241-261
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses three comics series: writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Tony Harris’ Ex Machina (August 2004–August 2010); writer Brian Wood and artist Riccardo Burchielli’s DMZ (November 2005–February 2012); and writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson’s The Boys (October 2006–November 2012). Taking literary critic Laura Frost’s concept of ‘archifictions’ as its starting point, the article discusses how these series frame the September 11 attacks on New York and their aftermath, but its primary concern is with their engagement with the larger social ramifications of 9/11 and with the War on Terror, and with how this engagement is rooted in and centred on Ground Zero. It argues that this rooting allows these comics’ creators to critique post-9/11 US culture and foreign policy, but that it also, ultimately, serves to disarm the critique that each series voices in favour of closure through recourse to recuperative architecture.
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- Mohibullah, Huma, et al.
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Introduction : Imagining Ground Zero
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. - : Intellect. - 2050-9790 .- 2050-9804. ; 4:1, s. 207-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article discusses the cultural mediation, memorialization and representation of Ground Zero, New York. It considers the site not only in terms of its materiality, but also as a powerful thought concept and outlines how the space and its reception have been treated in other scholarly literature. It contextualizes this special section, which interrogates the ideologies and practices that shape the area, for not only do these craft dominant images of the space, they also challenge hegemonic representations of it. The article also points to strengths and weaknesses in extant work on Ground Zero and introduces the contributions to this special section, in order to situate them within a larger scholarly framework.
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