Zachować traumę – 9/11 Museum w Nowym Jorku
Storing the Trauma – The 9/11 Museum in New York

Summary/Abstract: New Yorkers had to wait over a decade for the creation of a place to commemorate the attack on the World TRADE CENTER. Yet the opening of the 9/11 Museum and the 9/11 Memorial have not closed the social debate on the subject – on the contrary they have sparked many debates and controversies. Wojnowski tries to analyze the specifics of this institution, venturing the thesis that it exists to nurture the trauma of September 11th in the consciousness of Americans visiting the site. To his mind, the creators of the exhibition put more effort into emphasizing the scale of the tragedy and its relevance to the present day than into giving the visitor a sense of distance from a certain historical process. Wojnowski supports his thesis primarily with reference to Mark Seltzer's essay “Wound Culture,” which diagnoses the typically American postmodern fascination for traumatic events.

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