Collects interviews with survivors, bystanders, and emergency workers during the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, focusing on the different "zones of sadness" affected by the attack.
Record details
ISBN:023115898X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN:9780231158985 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description:xvii, 276 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm print
Publisher:New York :Columbia University Press,[2011]
The event -- Survivors : zone 1 -- Witnesses : zone 2 -- Participants : zone 3 -- Onlookers : zone 4 -- The dying -- Apocalyptic interlude -- Traumasong -- Television : numbing and rage -- Hidden children : television's exception -- Organic process -- Disrupted lives -- Death and future -- Pregnant women -- The surprise of it all -- On trauma and zones of sadness -- Historical memory of the disaster.