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Titolo |
Places of public memory [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of museums and memorials / / edited by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott |
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Tuscaloosa [Ala.], : University of Alabama Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DickinsonGreg |
BlairCarole |
OttBrian L |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Place (Philosophy) |
Memory |
Memorialization |
Museums - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : rhetoric/memory/place / Carole Blair, Greg Dickinson, and Brian L. Ott -- Rhetoric. Radioactive history : rhetoric, memory, and place in the post Cold War nuclear museum / Bryan C. Taylor -- Sparring with public memory : the rhetorical embodiment of race, power, and conflict in the Monument to Joe Louis / Victoria J. Gallagher and Margaret R. LaWare -- Rhetorical experience and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem / Gregory Clark -- Memory. Bad dreams about the good war : Bataan / John Bodnar -- You were on Indian land : Alcatraz Island as recalcitrant memory space / Cynthia Duquette Smith and Teresa Bergman -- Place. Tracing Mary Queen of Scots / Michael S. Bowman -- Memory's execution : (dis)placing the dissident body / Bernard J. Armada -- The master naturalist imagined : directed movement and simulations at the Draper Museum of Natural History / Eric Aoki, Greg Dickinson, and Brian L. Ott. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 |
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