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Monumental mobility : the memory work of Massasoit
- Title
- Monumental mobility : the memory work of Massasoit / Lisa Blee & Jean M. O'Brien.
- Author
- Blee, Lisa
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- O'Brien, Jean M.
- Description
- 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book is situated within the terrain of intense debate over the placement and displacement of monuments to difficult histories. Installed in Plymouth in 1921 to commemorate the Tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But Massasoit did not remain only in Plymouth. Lisa Blee and Jean O'Brien track the physical and narrative mobility of Massasoit through its inception and its movement to numerous locations in the US to illuminate how Massasoit's attachment to national origins did and did not move with the installations. The historical memory surrounding Massasoit suggests both the rich potential of Indigenous public historians to intervene in sanitized national narratives of origins, and the ways in which this history is commodified. Can Massasoit prompt viewers to reckon with ... the structural violence of settler colonialism in commemorative landscapes, or does it further entrench celebratory narratives of national origins?"--
- Alternative Title
- Memory work of Massasoit
- Subjects
- Massasoit, 1580-1661
- Monuments > Political aspects
- Collective memory
- Massachusetts > Plymouth
- Monuments > Political aspects > United States
- Massasoit, 1580-1661 > Monuments > Massachusetts > Plymouth
- Collective memory > United States
- History
- Monuments > Social aspects > United States
- United States
- Wampanoag Indians > Monuments > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-264) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : surprise and mobility -- Introduction -- Casting -- Staging -- Distancing -- Marketing -- Epilogue : anniversaries of rupture/disruptions of memory.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5125
- ISBN
- 9781469648392
- 1469648393
- 9781469648408
- 1469648407
- 9781469648415 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018029696
- OCLC
- 1043053429
- Author
- Blee, Lisa, author.
- Title
- Monumental mobility : the memory work of Massasoit / Lisa Blee & Jean M. O'Brien.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-264) and index.
- Added Author
- O'Brien, Jean M., author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5125