Places of Public Memory (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
294
Utgivningsdatum
2010-08-02
Upplaga
2nd ed.
Förlag
The University of Alabama Press
Medarbetare
Lucaites, John Louis (series ed.)
Illustrationer
26 illustrations
Dimensioner
226 x 150 x 20 mm
Vikt
477 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780817356132

Places of Public Memory

The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials

av Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, Brian Ott
Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-08-02
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Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, museums, and battlefields embody unique rhetorical principles. Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. From the mnemonic systems inscribed upon ancient architecture to the roadside accident memorials that line Americas highways, memory and place have always been deeply interconnected. This book investigates the intersections of memory and place through nine original essays written by leading memory studies scholars from the fields of rhetoric, media studies, organisational communication, history, performance studies, and English. The essays address, among other subjects, the rhetorical strategies of those vying for competing visions of a 9/11 memorial at New York Citys Ground Zero; rhetorics of resistance embedded in the plans for an expansion of the National Civil Rights Museum; representations of nuclear energyboth as power source and weaponin Cold War and postCold War museums; and tours and tourism as acts of performance. By focusing on official places of memory, the collection causes readers to reflect on how nations and local communities remember history and on how some voices and views are legitimated and others are minimised or erased.
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"This is a very interesting and diverse set of essays in the field of public history, which focuses our attention on fascinating case studies that have not been widely examined before. That alone makes this collection of interest to a broad readership." --Edward Linenthal, editor of "Journal of American History""" "A timely and welcome addition to the literature on memory studies, "Places of Public Memory" seeks to marry memory studies with the methodology of the rhetorician. This exceptional book should be widely read by cultural historians, rhetoricians, students of public memory, designers of museums and public displays."--"Journal of Popular Culture"

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