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

Other author Dickinson, Greg.
Other author Blair, Carole.
Other author Ott, Brian L.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,
Descriptionviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Portion of title Rhetoric of museums and memorials
SeriesRhetoric, culture, and social critique
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique. ^A586591
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [367]-378) and index.
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ISBN9780817317065 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0817317066 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780817356132 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0817356134 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780817383602 (electronic)
ISBN0817383603 (electronic)

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