| Description |
1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- READING CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How and Why to Read Confederate Monuments -- READING Reading Confederate Monuments as Texts and in Textual Contexts -- Chapter 1: Complicating Today's Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause: The Calhoun Monument, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation -- Chapter 2: Print Culture and the Enduring Legacy of Confederate War Monuments -- Chapter 3: South by Southwest: Confederate and Conquistador Memorials Crossing/Closing Borders |
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CULTURAL PRODUCTION Reading Literary and Cultural Texts as Confederate Monuments and Counter-Monuments -- Chapter 4: Weaponizing Silent Sam: Heritage Politics and The Third Revolution -- Chapter 5: "Wasting the Past": Albion Tourgée, Confederate Memory, and the Politics of Context -- Chapter 6: Redeeming White Women in/through Lost Cause Films -- Chapter 7: Performing Counter-Monumentality of the Civil War in Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2, and 3 |
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PEDAGOGY Reading Confederate Monuments and Counter-Monuments for How They Teach Belonging and Social Justice -- Chapter 8: Rewriting the Landscape: Black Communities and the Confederate Monuments They Inherited -- Chapter 9: Battle of the Billboards: White Supremacy and Memorial Culture in #Charlottesville -- Chapter 10: Teaching Confederate Monuments as American Literature -- Conclusion: Challenging Monumentality, Channeling Counter-Monumentality -- Afterword -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- About the Contributors |
| Summary |
A timely engagement with Confederate monuments and meaning-making in a literary context |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Collective memory in literature.
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Collective memory in art.
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Lost Cause mythology.
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Soldiers' monuments -- Southern States -- History and criticism
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
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Soldiers' monuments.
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Monuments.
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Lost Cause mythology.
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Collective memory in literature.
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Collective memory in art.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Monuments.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009001872
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United States.
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Southern States.
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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History.
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Essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Essays.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis-McElligatt, Joanna
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| LC no. |
2022019452 |
| ISBN |
9781496841674 |
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1496841670 |
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