Places of public memory
Subtitle: the rhetoric of museums and memorials
By: edited by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott.
Contributors: Dickinson, Greg.; Blair, Carole.; Ott, Brian L.
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa [Ala.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780817317065; 9780817356132; 9780817383602
Subjects: Place (Philosophy); Memory; Memorialization; Museums -- Social aspects
Other titles: Rhetoric of museums and memorials
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rhetoric/memory/place / Carole Blair, Greg Dickinson, and Brian L. Ott; title: Rhetoric. Radioactive history : rhetoric, memory, and place in the post Cold War nuclear museum / Bryan C. Taylor; title: 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; title: Rhetorical experience and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem / Gregory Clark; title: Memory. Bad dreams about the good war : Bataan / John Bodnar; title: You were on Indian land : Alcatraz Island as recalcitrant memory space / Cynthia Duquette Smith and Teresa Bergman; title: Place. Tracing Mary Queen of Scots / Michael S. Bowman; title: Memory's execution : (dis)placing the dissident body / Bernard J. Armada; title: The master naturalist imagined : directed movement and simulations at the Draper Museum of Natural History / Eric Aoki, Greg Dickinson, and Brian L. Ott.