Memorials Matter : Emotion, Environment and Public Memory at American Historical Sites /

"Memorials Matter investigates how sites of memory in the American West influence emotions about historical conflict and national identity. The book compares seven diverse National Park Service sites to show how the natural landscapes and built structures combine with written texts at each site...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ladino, Jennifer K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reno, Nevada, USA : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nationalbewusstsein
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Historische Stätte
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Denkmal
Memorials > Social aspects.
Historic sites > Social aspects.
Collective memory > Social aspects > West (U.S.)
Monuments > Social aspects > West (U.S.)
Memorials > Social aspects > West (U.S.)
Historic sites > Social aspects > West (U.S.)
USA
West United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : feeling like a mountain : scale, patriotism, and affective agency at Mount Rushmore National Memorial
  • "Fears made manifest" : desert creatures and border anxiety at Coronado National Memorial
  • Placing historical trauma : guilt, regret, and compassion at Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
  • Performing patriotism : reenactment, historicity, and thing-power at Golden Spike National Historic Site
  • Remembering war in paradise : grief, aloha, and techno-patriotism at WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument
  • Mountains, monuments, and other matter : reckoning with racism and simulating shame at Manzanar National Historic Site
  • "We have died. Remember us" : fear, wonder, and overlooking the buffalo soldiers at Golden Gate National Recreation Area
  • Postscript : "going rogue" with the alt-NPS : managing love and hate for an alternative anthropocene.

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