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Essays
by Veena Das, Robin Hogarth, Saba Gul Khattak, Tariq Modood,
Marita Sturken, and Kathleen Tierney
"The challenge in
New York will be to create a memorial where the World Trade Center
once stood that provides a place to grieve for and speak to the
dead, yet which also does not allow for a smoothing over of the
search for meaning, or attempt to bring closure to an event that
should not and cannot have closure."
--Marita Sturken,
"Memorializing Absence"
"Yet, while in many
other countries the wounds inflicted through such violence are
acknowledged as attesting to the vulnerability of human life - in
the case of American society there is an inability to acknowledge
this vulnerability. Or rather the vulnerability to which we, as
embodied beings are subject, the powerlessness, is recast in terms
of strength.... While many have heard arrogance in these
statements - to my ears they are signs of the inability to address
pain."
--Veena Das, "Violence
and Translation"
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