Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall (eBook)

Roger C. Aden is professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.

AcknowledgmentsI. IntroductionChapter 1. Haunting, Public Memories, and the National MallRoger C. AdenII. Affective Presences of Ephemeral Memories Chapter 2. Invoking the Spirits: A Rhetorical SéanceAaron Hess, A. Cheree Carlson, and Carlos FloresChapter 3. Before the National Mall: Coxey’s Army and the Precedent for Public ProtestSean LuechtefeldChapter 4. The Bonus Army March of 1932: Uneasy Legacies of Protest, Dissent, and Violence in American Memory Roger C. Aden and Kenneth E. FooteChapter 5. The “Unmarked and Unremarked” Memories of the National Mall: Resurrection City and the Unreconciled History of the Civil Rights Movement as Radical Place-MakingEthan Bottone, Derek H. Alderman, and Joshua InwoodIII. Faint Traces of Deflected MemoriesChapter 6. Haunting Dreams: Time and Affect in the Neoliberal Commemoration of “I Have a Dream”Michael P. VicaroChapter 7. The Haunting of “Forgotten” Places: Nineteenth Century Slave-Pens on the National MallElizabethada A. WrightChapter 8. The Portrait Monument’s Emblematic and Tortured HistoryTeresa BergmanChapter 9. Which Souls Shall Haunt Us? Competing Genocidal Memoryscapes and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Selective Colonial MemorializationsMarouf Hasian Jr. and Stephanie Marek MullerChapter 10. Oft’ Remembered, Oft’ Forgotten: Remembering James GarfieldTheodore F. SheckelsChapter 11. The National Gallery of Art: Remembering the Haunting Voices of the GhostsCarl T. HydenIV. ConclusionChapter 12. Confronting the Ghosts in the National AtticRoger C. AdenIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors