Places of public memory [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of museums and memorials / / edited by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa [Ala.], : University of Alabama Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 069.01
• Soggetto topico: Place (Philosophy); Memory; Memorialization; Museums - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DickinsonGreg BlairCarole OttBrian L
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Places of public memory
• ISBN: 0-8173-8360-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460017703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.