Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely contained within a formal sites, these memories remain public by lingering along the edges and within the crevices of commemorative landscapes. By integrating theories of haunting, place, and public memory, this collection demonstrates that the National Mall, often referred to as “the nation’s front yard,” might better be understood as “the nation’s attic” because it hides those issues we do not want to address but cannot dismiss. The neatly ordered installations and landscaping of the National Mall, if one looks and listens closely, reveal the messiness of US history. From the ephemeral memories of protests on the Mall to the displaced but persistent presences of inequality, each chapter in this book examines the ways in which contemporary public life in the US is haunted by incomplete efforts to close the book on the past.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-15
Mått161 x 237 x 19 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
Antal sidor244
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498563239

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AcknowledgmentsI. IntroductionChapter 1. Haunting, Public Memories, and the National MallRoger C. AdenII. Affective Presences of Ephemeral Memories Chapter 2. Invoking the Spirits: A Rhetorical SéanceAaron Hess, A. Cheree Carlson, and Carlos FloresChapter 3. Before the National Mall: Coxey’s Army and the Precedent for Public ProtestSean LuechtefeldChapter 4. The Bonus Army March of 1932: Uneasy Legacies of Protest, Dissent, and Violence in American MemoryRoger C. Aden and Kenneth E. FooteChapter 5. The “Unmarked and Unremarked” Memories of the National Mall: Resurrection City and the Unreconciled History of the Civil Rights Movement as Radical Place-MakingEthan Bottone, Derek H. Alderman, and Joshua InwoodIII. Faint Traces of Deflected MemoriesChapter 6. Haunting Dreams: Time and Affect in the Neoliberal Commemoration of “I Have a Dream”Michael P. VicaroChapter 7. The Haunting of “Forgotten” Places: Nineteenth Century Slave-Pens on the National MallElizabethada A. WrightChapter 8. The Portrait Monument’s Emblematic and Tortured HistoryTeresa BergmanChapter 9. Which Souls Shall Haunt Us? Competing Genocidal Memoryscapes and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Selective Colonial MemorializationsMarouf Hasian Jr. and Stephanie Marek MullerChapter 10. Oft’ Remembered, Oft’ Forgotten: Remembering James GarfieldTheodore F. SheckelsChapter 11. The National Gallery of Art: Remembering the Haunting Voices of the GhostsCarl T. HydenIV. ConclusionChapter 12. Confronting the Ghosts in the National AtticRoger C. AdenIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

We are, as Roger C. Aden suggests in the introduction to Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall, forever haunted by the past. We cannot escape the past, even when parts of it are dispersed, displaced, and downplayed. There may be no more compelling example of this truth than the commemorative landscape of the National Mall, which is the apogee of official appeals to national memory. For even as its monuments of marble and stone aggressively tell one story of our nation, other stories can be heard in the spaces betwixt and between these national landmarks. In a truly innovative collection of essays, Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall thoughtfully explores these alternative stories, illuminating the complex and contested nature of public memory in the process. A truly fascinating and unexpected examination of the most famous landscape of memory in the US.