On Reflecting Absence: Negativity and the Sacred at Ground Zero

The opening of Michael Arad’s Reflecting Absence, the National September 11th Memorial, in New York offers an occasion to think through the aesthetic strategies of negativity that have come to define this memorial as a paradigmatic countermemorial. This article investigates how and why the operative...

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Main Author: Lê, David (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2013
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 452-471
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