Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and...

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Charles Strozier (CUNY)

Until the Fires Stopped Burning

9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses

Charles Strozier (CUNY)

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Columbia University Press
06 September 2011

History; History of the Americas; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Terrorist attack

"Charles B. Strozier's college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since have attracted dozens of survivors and family members. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, Strozier has also accepted many seared by the disaster into his care. In some ways, the grief he has encountered has felt familiar; in other ways, unprecedented. Compelled to investigate its unique character further, he launched a fascinating study into the conscious and unconscious meaning of the event, both for those who were physically close to the attack and for those who witnessed it beyond the immediate space of Ground Zero.

Based on the testimony of survivors, bystanders, spectators, and victim's friends and families, Until the Fires Stopped Burning brings much-needed clarity to the conscious and unconscious meaning of 9/11 and its relationship to historical disaster, apocalyptic experience, unnatural death, and the psychological endurance of trauma. Strozier interprets and contextualizes the memories of witnesses and compares their encounter with 9/11 to the devastation of Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Katrina, and other events Kai Erikson has called a ""new species of trouble"" in the world. Organizing his study around ""zones of sadness"" in New York, Strozier powerfully evokes the multiple places in which his respondents confronted 9/11 while remaining sensitive to the personal, social, and cultural differences of these experiences. Most important, he distinguishes between 9/11 as an apocalyptic event (which he affirms it is not;rather, it is a monumental event), and 9/11 as an apocalyptic experience, which is crucial to understanding the act's affect on American life and a still-evolving culture of fear in the world."

By: Charles Strozier (CUNY)
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 539g
ISBN: 9780231158985
ISBN 10: 023115898X
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 06 September 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction The Event Part I: 102 Minutes of Disaster Zones of Sadness 1. Survivors: Zone 2. Witnesses: Zone 3. Participants: Zone 4. Onlookers: Zone Reflections 5. The Dying 6. Apocalyptic Interlude 7. Traumasong 8. Television: Numbing and Rage 9. Hidden Children: Television's Exception Part II: 100 Days of Suffering 10. Organic Process 11. Disrupted Lives 12. Death and Future 13. Pregnant Women Part III: Ten Years of Effects 14. The Surprise of It All 15. On Trauma and Zones of Sadness 16. Historical Memory of the Disaster Acknowledgments Appendix: The Literature on Trauma and the Measurement of PTSD After 9/11 Notes Index

Reviews for Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses

<p>Charles B. Strozier has crafted a unique and powerful blend of shattering personal narratives and thoughtful analysis. Anyone who wonders what 9/11 was like for those who experienced it up close will find Strozier's work the necessary reference. No other author possesses his blend of psychological insight, cultural and historical perspective, and narrative fluency. The intimately personal and profoundly historical mingle to produce a profound understanding of the human and cultural impact of the day America changed forever.--James W. Jones, author of Blood That Cries Out from the Earth: The Psychology of Religious Terrorism