Cargando…

American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory /

"The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics have long played a role in memorializi...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dennis, Matthew, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_113567
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20230905054709.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 220915s2023 mau o 00 0 eng d
010 |z  2022045164 
020 |a 9781685750107 
020 |z 9781625347114 
020 |z 9781625347121 
035 |a (OCoLC)1392045059 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Dennis, Matthew,  |d 1955-  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory /   |c Matthew Dennis. 
264 1 |a Amherst :  |b University of Massachusetts Press,  |c [2023] 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2023 
264 4 |c ©[2023] 
300 |a 1 online resource:   |b illustrations ; 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a Public history in historical perspective 
505 0 |a "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?" -- Making the New Nation Old; Or, Founding Objects : Relics and Nationalism -- Making the New Nation Ancient : The Incognitum, American Antiquities, and Indigenous Relics -- Making the New Republic Venerable : Object Lessons from the Relict Colonial Past and Early National Present -- "O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" : Pioneers, Relics, and the Colonial Landscape of Westward Expansion -- The Bloody Shirt : A Short History of a Sanguinary Object and Political Trope -- Atrocious Relics : Trophy-Taking, Lynching, and the Objects of Terror -- "We Will Never Forget" : The New Political Voices of Relics in Post-Holocaust America -- 9/11 : Material Victimology -- Future Relics. 
520 |a "The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics have long played a role in memorializing the American past, acting as physical reminders of hard-won battles, mass tragedies, and political triumphs. Surveying the expanse of U.S. history, "American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory" shows how these objects have articulated glory, courage, and national greatness as well as horror, defeat, and oppression. While relics mostly signified heroism in the nation's early years, increasingly, they have acquired a new purpose--commemorating victimhood. The atrocious relics of lynching and the looted remains of Native American graves were later transformed into shameful things, exposing ongoing racial violence and advancing calls for equality and civil rights. Matthew Dennis pursues this history of fraught public objects and assesses the emergence of new venues of memorialization, such as virtual and digital spaces. Through it all, relics continue to fundamentally ground and shape U.S. public memory in its uncertain present and future"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Material culture.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01011739 
650 7 |a Manners and customs.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 
650 7 |a Collective memory.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01739814 
650 7 |a Antiquities.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00810745 
650 0 |a Collective memory  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Material culture  |z United States. 
651 7 |a United States.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 
651 0 |a United States  |x Antiquities. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Social life and customs. 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/113567/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2023 Complete 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2023 History