Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rex, Cathy; Watson, Shevaun E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America's earliest engagements with race.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000463446
• Artikelnr.: 62457975

Autorenporträt

Cathy Rex is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She specializes in early American literature and material culture. Her scholarship has appeared in many journals and edited collections; her monograph was published by Ashgate in 2015. Shevaun E. Watson is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She specializes in rhetoric, composition, early American rhetoric, and public memory. She is working on a monograph about heritage tourism, race, and public memory in Charleston, S.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Directions for Research: Bringing Together Public Memory,
Early America, and Tourism Studies. 1. Revisiting the Gateway to Bondage: A
Comparative Study of the Landscape Preservation and Touristic
Interpretation at Sullivan's Island with Ellis and Angel Islands. 2.
Remembrance and Mourning in the Native Mid-South: Florence Indian Mound
Museum's Past, Present, and Future. 3. Remembering and Forgetting
Plantation History in Jamaica: Rose Hall and Greenwood Great House. 4. At
the Table or On the Menu at Indiana's Feast of the Hunters' Moon. 5.
Slavery in the Big Easy: Digital Interventions in the Tourist Landscape of
New Orleans. 6. Don't Mess with (Anglo) Texas: Dominant Cultural Values in
Heritage Sites of the Texas Revolution. 7. Bulloch Hall and the Movement
Toward a Well-Rounded Interpretation of Antebellum Life in Roswell,
Georgia. 8. Rendezvous with History: Grand Portage National Monument and
Minnesota's North Shore. Afterword: Memory and Heritage in the "Era of Just
Redemption".