Rhetorics haunting the National Mall : displaced and ephemeral public memories /

This book explores how ephemeral and displaced public memories continue to linger and circulate around the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Chapters examine unrecognized historical events on the Mall, selective interpretations of the past within the Mall's sites, and places of public memory hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Aden, Roger C., 1962- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:	Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.
Subjects:	Mall, The (Washington, D.C.) > History. Collective memory > United States. Public history > United States. Memorialization > United States. Washington (D.C.) > History. Protest movements > Washington (D.C.) > History. Washington (D.C.) > Buildings, structures, etc. Memorials > Washington (D.C.) Museums > Social aspects > United States. Public spaces > Social aspects > United States.

Table of 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.