Gebundenes Buch

Contested Commemoration in U.S. History

Diverging Public Interpretations

Herausgeber: Szlezák, Klara Stephanie; Bender, Melissa M.

Beschreibung

This edited volume contains fresh interpretations of public history and collective memory that explore the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its past. An indispensable text for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Historical Memory, Public History and American Studies.

Autor

Melissa M. Bender is a senior lecturer and the associate director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of California, Davis. Her monograph, Dysfunctional Family Values: Nurturing the Neoliberal Self in U.S. Memoir, will be published in 2020. Her research interests include visual and material rhetoric, writing studies, and American cultural studies. Klara Stephanie Szlezák is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. She is the author of "Canonized in History": Literary Tourism and 19th-Century Writers' Houses in New England. Her research interests include museum studies, visual culture studies, and the history of immigration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780367249328
• ISBN-10: 0367249324
• Artikelnr.: 57941705