Relics of Modernity : Theorizing Rhetorics and Performances of Ruins / edited by Andrew F. Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Andrew F., editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric.

Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Collective memory.

Rhetoric.

Ruins, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This book explores ruins whose intersections of symbolic messaging and material experience critique the modern project. By investigating ghost towns, industrial relics, prison sites, and other locales associated with dark tourism, contributors provide unique insights into contemporary rhetorics and performances of public life.

Contents:

Introduction Andrew F. Wood Chapter 1: On the Ruins of a Black Utopia: Moving Memories of Buxton, Iowa Faber McAlister and Dylan Rollo Chapter 2: Communicative Spaces of Abjection: Rust, Ruination, & Renewal in Gary, Indiana Austin D. Hestdalen Chapter 3: Performing Industrial Heritage in the Ruins of Bethlehem Steel Christopher Lee Adamczyk Chapter 4: "Today I Found a Rotting Experimental Prison in the Woods": Re-Assessing Ruins of the Past for the Sake of the Present Evan R. Jones Chapter 5: Restoration Rhetoric and the Ruins of Nauvoo: Creation, Memory, Destruction, and Modernity Isaac James Richards Chapter 6: A Discursive Ruin of Modernity: Exploring Motivations for Dark Tourism at the Colosseum Aneilya Barnes and Clay M. Craig Chapter 7: Rhetoric of Memories at Alcatraz National Park: Mediated Texts and Experiencing Dark Tourism Edwin S. Lee and Nathan J. Ruiz Chapter 8: Manufactured Ruins: Tourism, Comfort Colonialism, and Imperial Nostalgia Within Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom Derek T. Buescher Chapter 9: Ruins, Remembrance, and Pedagogy: Teaching the Topography of Terror Andrew F. Wood and Tabitha Hart

ISBN:

1-9787-4664-4

1-66694-269-3

9798765154809

OCLC:

1521498190