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US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall -

US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall

Roger C. Aden (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
254 Seiten
2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6320-8 (ISBN)
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This book explores how prominent sites across the National Mall remember US history, both individually and in concert with other sites throughout the Mall. Collectively, these sites reveal how the nation remembers itself and convey key elements of its collective nature.
US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated examination of how the National Mall shares a moral story of the United States and, in so doing, reveals the soul of the nation. The contributors explore 11 different memorials, monuments, and museums found across the Mall, considering how each rhetorically remembers a key element of the nation’s past, what the rhetorical memory tells us about the nation’s soul, and how each site must thus be understood in relation to the commemorative landscape of the Mall.

Roger C. Aden is professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Soul of the Nation
Roger C. Aden

Chapter 2. Civic Tourism and the Washington Monument
Casey R. Schmitt

Chapter 3. Placemaking and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: An Exploration in User-experience Design
John A. McArthur

Chapter 4. Myth and Accountability: The Negotiation of Rhetorical Tensions in the Korean War Veterans Memorial
Michael R. Kramer

Chapter 5. Commemorating in America’s Front Yard: The National World War II Memorial and the Public Memory Landscape of the National Mall
Jennifer L. Jones Barbour

Chapter 6. A Requiem and a Dream: Discerning the Rhetorical Significance of the Lincoln Memorial
Raymond Blanton

Chapter 7. The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial as a Site of Virtuous Suffering
Lawrence J. Prelli

Chapter 8. Entrepreneurs and Immigrants: Representing American Identity in the National Museum of American History
Jennifer Keohane

Chapter 9. Intergenerational Cultural Trauma and the National Museum of the American Indian
Ernest Stromberg

Chapter 10. Public Memory as Contested Site: The Struggle for Existence at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Timothy J. Brown

Chapter 11. Extending the National Narrative: The MLK Memorial and the Museum of African American History and Culture
Lisa Benton-Short

Chapter 12. Memorials behind the One We See: The Story of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
Karen A. Franck

Chapter 13. Stepping into History: Time and Dialogue in the Progressive Experience of the FDR Memorial
Catherine L. Langford

Chapter 14. Conclusion: Soul Searching and Public Memory on the National Mall
Roger C. Aden

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
Co-Autor Lisa Benton-Short, Raymond Blanton, Timothy J. Brown, Karen A. Franck
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 599 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4985-6320-1 / 1498563201
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-6320-8 / 9781498563208
Zustand Neuware
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