Places of public memory : the rhetoric of museums and memorials

Publication Data

• Title Places of public memory : the rhetoric of museums and memorials
• Alternative Title Rhetoric of museums and memorials
• Contributors Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, Brian L. Ott
• Publisher University of Alabama Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Tuscaloosa Ala.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Place (Philosophy)
• Memory
• Memorialization
• Museums :: Social aspects

Places of public memory : the rhetoric of museums and memorials. ISBN 9780817356132. Published by University of Alabama Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.