Rhetorics haunting the National Mall : displaced and ephemeral public memories / edited by Roger C. Aden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aden, Roger C., 1962- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.

Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--United States.

Collective memory.

Memorialization--United States.

Memorialization.

Memorials--Washington (D.C.).

Memorials.

Museums--Social aspects--United States.

Museums.

Protest movements--Washington (D.C.)--History.

Protest movements.

Public history--United States.

Public history.

Public spaces--Social aspects--United States.

Public spaces.

Buildings.

Museums--Social aspects.

Public spaces--Social aspects.

Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)--History.

Mall, The (Washington, D.C.).

Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Washington (D.C.).

Washington (D.C.)--History.

United States.

Washington (D.C.)--The Mall.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages).

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

"This book explores how ephemeral and displaced public memories continue to linger and circulate around the National Mall in Washington, DC. Chapters examine unrecognized historical events on the Mall, selective interpretations of the past within the Mall's sites, and places of public memory hiding in plain sight."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Haunting, public memories, and the National Mall / Roger C. Aden

Affective presences of ephemeral memories

Invoking the spirits: a rhetorical séance / Aaron Hess, A. Cheree Carlson, and Carlos Flores

Before the National Mall: Coxey's Army and the precedent for public protest / Sean Luechtefeld

The Bonus Army March of 1932: uneasy legacies of protest, dissent, and violence in American memory / Roger C. Aden and Kenneth E. Foote

The "unmarked and unremarked" memories of the National Mall: Resurrection City and the unreconciled history of the civil rights movement as radical place-making / Ethan Bottone, Derek H. Alderman, and Joshua Inwood

Faint traces of deflected memories

Haunting dreams: time and affect in the neoliberal commemoration of "I have a dream" / Michael P. Vicaro

The haunting of "forgotten" places: nineteenth century slave-pens on the National Mall / Elizabethada A. Wright

The portrait monument's emblematic and tortured history / Teresa Bergman

Which souls shall haunt us? competing genocidal memoryscapes and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's selective colonial memorializations / Marouf Hasian Jr. and Stephanie Marek Muller

Oft remembered, oft forgotten: remembering James Garfield / Theodore F. Sheckels

The National Gallery of Art: remembering the haunting voices of the ghosts / Carl T. Hyden

Conclusion

Confronting the ghosts in the national attic / Roger C. Aden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-3078-0

1-4985-6324-4

OCLC:

1043953681