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Places of public memory the rhetoric of museums and memorials

Title
Places of public memory [electronic resource] : the rhetoric of museums and memorials / edited by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott.
Publication
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Dickinson, Greg.
  • Blair, Carole.
  • Ott, Brian L.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 282 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Uniform Title
  • Places of public memory (Online)
  • Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Alternative Title
Rhetoric of museums and memorials
Subject
  • Place (Philosophy)
  • Memory
  • Memorialization
  • Museums > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-378) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2010000248
OCLC
ssj0000458612
Title
Places of public memory [electronic resource] : the rhetoric of museums and memorials / edited by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott.
Imprint
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.
Series
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-378) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Dickinson, Greg.
Blair, Carole.
Ott, Brian L.
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