Rhetorics haunting the National Mall displaced and ephemeral public memories / edited by Roger C. Aden.

SeriesLexington studies in contemporary rhetoric
Contents Introduction -- Haunting, public memories, and the National Mall / Roger C. Aden -- Affective presences of ephemeral memories -- Invoking the spirits: a rhetorical séance / Aaron Hess, A. Cheree Carlson, and Carlos Flores -- Before the National Mall: Coxey's Army and the precedent for public protest / Sean Luechtefeld -- The Bonus Army March of 1932: uneasy legacies of protest, dissent, and violence in American memory / Roger C. Aden and Kenneth E. Foote -- The "unmarked and unremarked" memories of the National Mall: Resurrection City and the unreconciled history of the civil rights movement as radical place-making / Ethan Bottone, Derek H. Alderman, and Joshua Inwood -- Faint traces of deflected memories -- Haunting dreams: time and affect in the neoliberal commemoration of "I have a dream" / Michael P. Vicaro -- The haunting of "forgotten" places: nineteenth century slave-pens on the National Mall / Elizabethada A. Wright -- The portrait monument's emblematic and tortured history / Teresa Bergman -- Which souls shall haunt us? competing genocidal memoryscapes and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's selective colonial memorializations / Marouf Hasian Jr. and Stephanie Marek Muller -- Oft remembered, oft forgotten: remembering James Garfield / Theodore F. Sheckels -- The National Gallery of Art: remembering the haunting voices of the ghosts / Carl T. Hyden -- Conclusion -- Confronting the ghosts in the national attic / Roger C. Aden.
Abstract "This book explores how ephemeral and displaced public memories continue to linger and circulate around the National Mall in Washington, DC. Chapters examine unrecognized historical events on the Mall, selective interpretations of the past within the Mall's sites, and places of public memory hiding in plain sight."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Rhetorics haunting the National Mall Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2018] 9781498563239
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LCCN 2018032096
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